Living off misery
(data from Parade Magazine 11/27/05)
Ah, it's great to be a war planner. The rewards are quite lucrative – especially of you failed in your job. Let's see: former CIA Director Tenet has a $4 million deal to write a book. Everyone remembers “slam dunk” George who phonied up intelligence for Dick Cheney and Bush. Oh, Paul Wolfowitz, former Pentagon #2 and a neocon brownshirt, is now head of the World Bank and pulls down a $300,000,yr salary – tax free. Former US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer who let $ billions get stolen, pulls in $40,000/speech and just got $100,000+ for a book he's writing.
In contrast, the grunts fighting and dying because of the scummy and fraudulent actions taken by those mentioned hardly get paid at all: privates $3,104/mo, corporals $3,637/mo, captains $6,373/mo. These salaries include $625/mo in combat pay.
It's the “Peter Principle” run-amok; screw up and get rich. Do your job and die.
Posted on The Human Stain
(data from Parade Magazine 11/27/05)
Ah, it's great to be a war planner. The rewards are quite lucrative – especially of you failed in your job. Let's see: former CIA Director Tenet has a $4 million deal to write a book. Everyone remembers “slam dunk” George who phonied up intelligence for Dick Cheney and Bush. Oh, Paul Wolfowitz, former Pentagon #2 and a neocon brownshirt, is now head of the World Bank and pulls down a $300,000,yr salary – tax free. Former US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer who let $ billions get stolen, pulls in $40,000/speech and just got $100,000+ for a book he's writing.
In contrast, the grunts fighting and dying because of the scummy and fraudulent actions taken by those mentioned hardly get paid at all: privates $3,104/mo, corporals $3,637/mo, captains $6,373/mo. These salaries include $625/mo in combat pay.
It's the “Peter Principle” run-amok; screw up and get rich. Do your job and die.
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posted by James Roberts at
11/27/2005 09:28:00 PM
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