Thread: obama Czars
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Old 07-22-2009, 00:39   #17
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Originally Posted by Dennis View Post
I'm curious how you arrived at a speculated salary level of $3 to $5 million? When U.S. Senators make around $169,000 annually, it's quite a stretch to get to these amounts. I imagine if they were getting annual compensation even in the million dollar ballpark, there would be such an outcry from the senate and congress. I mean after all, they are the ones who are supposed to be getting rich from our taxes, not some johnny-come-lately czars.

If it's true, then congressmen and the senators are being underpaid, a problem they will remedy immediately, before any breaks, holidays, etc. They will not let minor issues like unemployment and a woeful economy stand in the way of doing what is right! Maybe we need a czar to quantify the amount by which our government leaders are underpaid. We can call him or her the Wonderland czar. The debate and analysis on the size of the warrented raises( and grandfathered back pay) will be so transparent, we will not even be able to see it.

Even though it's not related to the above, I cannot let another day pass without the following observation : Obama throws like a friggin girl(apologies to all girls on this board).
I don't know anything for a fact. But since there are over 30 Czars named so far and maybe assume they make at least $100K or better yet use the $170K figure that a Senators make, would be over $5 million. Plus staff and expenses. Hope I didn't imply that they were knocking down 7 figures each. They will have to wait for the lecture tour to get that or when they write a book detailing their time in the White House that destroyed the country. I'd assume a Czar would make as much as a Senator or more. Honestly, I don't know! They didn't have Czars when I took Civics classes in college. Curious if any of this information has been released in the new era of transparency

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