At 11:17 AM 7/22/01, Jeroen wrote:
>At 12:07 22-7-01 -0400, Dean Forster wrote:
>
>> > 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 manager's
>> > 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.
>>
>>I'd think that these sort of abuses can be cut back if your government
>>and people embrace private industry and understand it better instead of
>>saying 'eew, capitalism!' Though I suspect that's happening already.
>
>
>Er, Dean, did you really read my post? Your beloved private industry is
>exactly where this excessive self-enrichment takes place! The government
>is not involved in determining the salaries and pay raises of top managers
>in private industry.
Same problem in the public sector. Here in one of the smaller, poorer
states in the nation, the school superintendent appointed a couple of years
ago was given a salary making him the third-highest-paid such official in
the nation, despite the fact that many schools in the district were on
probation because the test scores were low and not enough of the students
were graduating . . .
--Ronn! :)
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