[Stoat]

Alex Salmond, the Scottish first minister, said last night that the remarks showed Labour's true “contempt” for the Scottish people, and questioned why McTernan should keep his publicly funded £99,000-a-year job.

XE.com Conversion - 99,000.00 GBP to USD

99,000.00 GBP	=	193,574.70 USD
United Kingdom Pounds		United States Dollars
1 GBP = 1.95530 USD		1 USD = 0.511430 GBP

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Current salary of The President of The United States:

Effective January 1, 2001, the annual salary of the president of the United States was increased to $400,000 per year, including a $50,000 expense allowance.

The increase was approved as part of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act (Public Law 106-58), passed in the closing days of the 106th Congress.

"Sec. 644. (a) Increase in Annual Compensation.--Section 102 of title 3, United States Code, is amended by striking '$200,000' and inserting '$400,000'. (b) Effective Date.--The <<NOTE: 3 USC 102 note.>> amendment made by this section shall take effect at noon on January 20, 2001."

Vice President's Salary
The salary of the vice president is currently (for 2008) $221,100

Presidential Pay and Compensation

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So, a Government AIDE to the Scottish and Defence Secretary makes about the same as our President did up until 2001, and makes just a bit less than what our Vice President does currently.

And he thinks that Socialist Sweden is such a wonderful place....

[dr_who_2]

If Scotland is bigoted enough to dump Labour for more right-leaning politics instead of worser forms of socialist gobbledygook, their bigotry will likely do the region a world of good. But I imagine that a lot of Scotland is to the left of Labour.

[padre35]

Fortunately for McTerminator, there are flights leaving Heathrow hourly for Sweden, he can choose anyone of them at anytime and not bother paying for the return fare...

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

racist (and narrow and Presbyterian)

DAMN. RIGHT.