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POPSThe Value of Money George Washington was paid a salary of $25,000 a year from 1789 to 1797 as the first president of the United States. The current salary of the president has recently been doubled to $400,000, to go with a $50,000 expense account, a generous pension and several other benefits. Has the remuneration improved? Making a comparison using the CPI for 1790 shows that $25,000 corresponds to over $585,000 today, so the recent raise means current presidents have an equal command over consumer goods as the Father of the Country. When comparing Washington's salary to an unskilled worker, or the measure of average income, GDP per capita, then the comparable numbers are $11 and $24 million. Granted that would not put him in the ranks of the top 25 executives today that make over $200 million. It would, however, be many times more than any elected official in this country is paid today.
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POPSDo corrupt workers infest Blackpool council? If you work for the deprived of Blackpool, this article comes of little surprise. The ease with which Blackpool council castigate and humiliate the elderly, the ill-educated and the vulnerable is better than legend. There is something drastically wrong within the system if vulnerable people are harangued in the way they are, while insiders hide their evil duplicity under a welter of needless accusations against innocent residents. £6000.000 tells the truth. The mass majority of council workers are conscientious and honest individuals. This situation can only arise because the average, decent employee cannot use their common sense. They are hen-pecked with stupid regulations and abeyance of political correctness. If the top hierarchy of the Finance Department were really held accountable and dismissed, the position replaced by a competent clerk on a reasonable salary, then the problem would be solved
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POPSTaxation: Our Rulers Carnival Of Theft And Plunder But there is a case to be made for a kind of windfall profits tax: A tax on windfall political profits is indeed desirable. Our rulers cannot legally take home personally more than a minor share (in salary and perks) of the income they steal from us through taxation. But they "profit" from taxes nevertheless by using billions and billions of dollars to buy votes from various political constituencies in order to perpetuate their political careers. Then, in many cases, after spending years in Congress giving away our hard-earned dollars to various undeserving individuals and groups, they retire to earn large salaries from those very groups or to become lobbyists for the groups and use their political connections to keep this carnival of theft and plunder going. That is how our rulers profit personally from tax revenue.
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POPSCongressman Alcee Hastings Pays Woman Money Is it true Alcee and Patricia are a "thing"? One "thing" is certain, the Congressman sure pays Patricia Williams very well indeed. I mean come'on Alcee, $45,000.00 for only 3 months of work is more than reports say you pay your Chief of Staff. Not to mention the $134,000.00 of our tax dollars that went to Patricia in 2007 ! Darn, she must be good eh Alcee? If you two are in fact living together, then it might seem your combined salaries would then total nearly $300,000.00 More than enough (considering everything you eat, drive and fly is on our tax dollar) to pay down your 2 - 7 million bucks in debt. PUBLIC PARASITES, that's what you all seem like to me !
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POPSCongressman Alcee Hastings Pays Big Money to Republican Brain Donor WOW ! January to March 2008 (that's 3 months folks) and Republican Art Kennedy gets a cool $40K for working with (or more aptly stated, being the "Brains" behind) DEM Congressman Hastings mouth? Fiscal Year 2007 subtotal dollars for Art Kennedy is an astounding $160,000.00 (man-oh-man), that's almost the salary of a Congressman! Not bad Art Kennedy ! Not bad for a Re-thug-lican like you who is in all likelyhood doing his darndest best to undermine the Democratic Party through Hastings' Office. Let's all remember Hastings' recent attack against the DNC...his own Party, and then wonder who might have master-minded it ! Anyone care to guess?
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POPSWelcome to Low Interest Payday Loans Low interest payday loans are available only for the salaried employees as these loans are secured against the upcoming salary of the borrowers. The money is debited against the borrowers's salary bank account on his next pay day automatically, through a past dated cheque
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POPSWelcome To Unsecured Loans The unsecured loans as the name indicates does not require any security or down payment for approval. The borrowers can easily get approved for a loan amount of £ 25000 without any guarantee. The no income proof unsecured loans offer a reduced interest rate that is suitable for your needs. A person is free to choose a repayment plan varying form six months to ten years with regard to the loan amount. The borrowers can also be self-confirming the salary document for these loans.
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POPSThe Parliamentary upholder of RIGHTS A report well worth reading. If you have an ardent Nu Lieber friend, print off the report and give it to them. Then sit back and gloat as they squirm, whine, prattle and lie to you.
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POPSSchawarzenegger Threatens to Pay State Workers Minimum Wage It's amazing how cavalier rich people in power can be about the wages of working people. Load mountains of federal debt to fund tax cuts for the rich and enrich Big Oil in Iraq or, in this case, slash their wages only to score a political point. It amounts the same callous indifference about the needs of the average working person and family. It's no comfort that they will receive their full pay later on. Can they pay their creditors without penalty under the same arrangement? We all know the answer to that one, don't we.
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POPSHey Pal, Can You Spare $100 Billion? Since then the shelves of many shops and supermarkets have been largely bare, except when owners are prepared to risk being caught charging prices that reflect the cost of importing goods from South Africa. Huge queues form outside any bakery selling bread at a controlled price, and demand far outstrips supply.
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