[Bernard]

Yesterday morning on the C-SPAN call in show people were calling in and making some rude comments about Tony Snow because of his comments about leaving the White House job because it only paid $168,000 USD. They said he was out of touch.

It seems to me that anybody who thinks that $168,000 is a lot of money compared to the average federal government payroll is also out of touch: do they think we ran up a $9 TRILLION (with a T) National Debt because the government pays close to minimum wage?

It also aggravated me that people would call and make rude remarks about a person on the day he died, but then I remembered that to these people, politics is more important than common decency.

[snugs]

Unfortunately there are always some who will use something like this to make a party political or ideology point.

[altura]

I just found out, to my horror, that one of the co-hosts on a 3 hour sports show on a LOCAL all sports station made $500,000 a year.

(Tony was underpaid at whatever he did)