<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/530b8f1a-366f-48fd-8aaa-ac32255bf5eb/FDEF30E2-20D2-459F-A527-C1BD64272110/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/as-an-organisation-the-national-broadcaster-rte-personifies-the-ruinous-and-unrealistic-vices-of-irish-life-1893427.html" href="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/as-an-organisation-the-national-broadcaster-rte-personifies-the-ruinous-and-unrealistic-vices-of-irish-life-1893427.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.independent.ie</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/as-an-organisation-the-national-broadcaster-rte-personifies-the-ruinous-and-unrealistic-vices-of-irish-life-1893427.html"><P> To be sure, no part of Government is immune to the illness. Everywhere we see overpaid incompetence. We've just heard that we are to get a national post code by 2011. Four years ago the Government announced that we would have post codes, in place, by January 1, 2008. On Saturday, this newspaper revealed that public sector pay (including pensions) was 25pc greater than private pay, all of three years ago. What the figures are now, after the jobs slaughter in the private sector, I do not dare think. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/as-an-organisation-the-national-broadcaster-rte-personifies-the-ruinous-and-unrealistic-vices-of-irish-life-1893427.html"><P> But we also just learnt that our university heads are on salaries which top a quarter of a million each. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/as-an-organisation-the-national-broadcaster-rte-personifies-the-ruinous-and-unrealistic-vices-of-irish-life-1893427.html"><P> And just to reassure us that their employees are not being neglected, the average college lecturer's salary in the <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/United+States" title="United States">US</A> is €45,000. In the <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/United+Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</A> it is €50,000. In <A href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</A> it is €83,000. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FDEF30E2-20D2-459F-A527-C1BD64272110/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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