Re: Sean O'Keefe Departs

From: Tkalbfus1 (tkalbfus1_at_aol.com)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: 23 Dec 2004 16:33:33 GMT

>Okay, then how do you propose the government pay its employees to make
>their salaries comparable to that of the private sector?

See what the going rate is in the Private sector and have the government match
that. If you want a talented Administrator and you want to keep him, you should
pay him more than the average Joe. Alot of privat companies find it economical
to pay their CEOs millions of dollars, and they find that the performance of
these CEOs justifies that salary. One salary for the head guy, even if its
millions of dollars is a smal amount when compared with the overall budget. If
a CEO is able to make a company profitable, giving the CEO the extra money
turns out to be worth while. If you are making a profit on your investments, do
you really care how much the CEO makes so long as he keeps the company in the
black.

If an NASA administrator can run the agency smoothly and efficiently, don't you
think its worth paying him half a million dollars in order to keep him? Half a
million is not even enough to pay for a single space mission, but if he keeps
NASA from wasting money, its well worth the tiny expense. I wouldn't want to be
cheap in hiring executive talent, if that means paying him $150,000 and getting
a wasteful, slothful, inefficient agency that plows money into questionable
projects and then abandons them. For NASA $500,000 is not alot of money. I
don't care in the Administrator owns a luxury boat, has maids in the kitchen
and spoils his daughter on all the latest fashions. If he associates with
Donald Trump and flies around in executive jets, and holds wild parties
inviting all sorts of celebrities from Hollywood, who really cares?

Look I don't care about his personal lifestyle or whether its sufficently
Proletarian, so long as he does his job properly. Paying high salaries is
justifiable so long as we get the talent and the performance we need. I don't
care about fairness or jealous government workers who complain about how high
their boss's salary is compared to their own. A person's salary should be
proportional to his talent. So long as all the other workers get paid a decent
salary they can live off of, I don't see where their jealousy of someone else
getting paid more really matters.

Does it matter more to you that you have a decent home to live in and feed and
take care of your family, or is it more important, that others don't have
incomes that are too much higher than your own?

Tom

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