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Friday, August 10, 2012

Those damned Salaries

What's Mallard raving about today?

Education

Care to compare compensation and outcomes with the leaders of the for-profit education system?

8 comments:

dlauthor said...

A Republican mouthpiece going down Excessive Compensation Street? Yet another not-good idea in a career in your bad-idea strewn life, Tinshley.

Kip W said...

Holy smoke! The heads of unions with millions of members to represent are paid! Thank heaven the People's Lightning Rod is here to draw attention to this horrendous fact.

CW in LA said...

"In other news," to introduce the same factoid he's been harping on all week?

Say, wingnut welfare boy, let's see your tax returns: How much are you getting paid for this, nowhere near half-assed, let's generously say one sixteenth-assed dreck?

Tog said...

Not everyone can be married to a lawyer, Tinsley.

"I know! That's what--urrrp--what makes me a superior man!! Survival of the fittest! (farts loudly on purpose)"

Bill the Splut said...

Jeez, Bruce, when I suggested the "In Other News" drinking game, I didn't mean that you should join in.

But life may just be a drinking game to you. "My wingnut welfare check came! Take a drink!" "The sun came up! CHUG!" "I appear to have not yet blacked out. Take a..." *thump*

In other news, my WV began with the number 27.

DiR said...

I'd like to complement Bruce and being bold and decisive in his speaking to power, re truth.
And I'd like to remind everyone that the kinds of asinine redundancy found rampant in the government would NEVER fly in the private sector!

Marion Delgado said...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands-Schools-Successful.html

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3749880 - Why Finnland is #1

http://educationnext.org/a-different-role-for-teachers-unions/ - how Ontario did the opposite of the US, especially ohio and wisconsin, and why it works.

Rootbeer said...

Oh no, a man serving in an executive position was paid five hundred grand for his work!

Why, that's almost 3% of what Mitt Romney's money earns for him in a year.