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To: SteveAustin

Socialism is a drug disorder. Besides getting people hooked, it distorts reality. Goods and services cease to be necessities or luxuries, and become rights to be paid for by others. When the pipeline fails, the addicts go bonkers.

Fact: the US is only a handful - one handful, not two - of years behind Greece in terms of debt to income ratio. Plan accordingly.


55 posted on 05/05/2010 8:11:13 PM PDT by qwertypie
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To: qwertypie

Spain curbs ‘millionaire’ pay for air traffic controllers (incredible salaries)

According to figures released by the transport ministry last week, 135 controllers earned more than 600,000 euros (830,000 US dollars) per year while 713 earned between 360,000 and 540,000 euros.

By comparison Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero earns just under 92,000 euros a year while the average salary in Spain is just over 18,000 euros per year, according to government figures.

In addition, the controllers can retire at the age of 52.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


70 posted on 05/05/2010 11:59:20 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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