At 20:25 19-7-01 -0400, Kevin Camplate wrote:
>Would that be the same government that spends billions of dollars on
>weapons, while at the same time lets the poor and the homeless starve to death?
>
>Jeroen
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>Oh yes let's hold up that placard. Mean old government is just letting
>people die while spending 3k on a toilet seat.
Exactly how much of that is fact? I've heard people refer to those
expensive toilet seats (with varying price tags) often when they criticize
government, but I have not seen any hard evidence (like photocopies of
invoices). It seems to me that someone once made up that example of
expensive toilet seats, after which it got a life of its own.
Now, onto rediculous spending in the corporate world.
In the last few years, the top management of large companies in The
Netherlands have received an awful lot of criticism because of the
outrageous annual pay raises they give themselves. Those managers' salaries
are already measured in millions of guilders, but raises of 20%, 30%, or in
the case of ABN-AMRO (a major bank) even almost 50% (!) happen every year.
At the same time, these same managers call in unison "we can't afford that"
or "that would hurt the economy" when the unions want a mere 3-4% raise for
the workers.
Jeroen
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