To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men,
and even for those who possess it,
it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by
the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by
the restlessness engendered by material progress.
The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability;
because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him.
But this power needs solitude to develop freely;
the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.
Charles Baudelaire
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(IPI). From ABC 7 Chicago: "According to state pension records, there are dozens of retired state workers with pensions of more than $200,000 per year, several at more than $300,000, and two atop the list at more than $400,000.
The tax-free money is subsidized by taxpayers."
So lets HEAR who these State workers and, WHAT their monthly slaries were. Their salaries and pension payouts are NO WAY REMOTELY CLOSE to what a normal everyday State employee like myself would get. ONLY the Executives, Administrators are the ones receiving huge salaries and pensions and THAT INCLUDES the lawmakers and Governors and NOBODY says a DAMN thing about the exuberant salaries the lawmakers get for part time work and after 8 years can retire with a FULL pension
Only a populist retard thinks that the pensions of a few dozen legislators are causing the current pension crisis; by the way, from what i've seen, the average pension for lawmakers is something like $49K, less than half of what Illinois judges make. I think IPI notes that the 30-year Illinois teacher clears over $70K a year, and the average figures touted by the unions are misleading because people who work less than 30 years are included in those numbers.
What is particularly nauseating over you populists is instead of targeting $400K a year in pensions to double-dipper Abraham, you are going after a politically convenient target. Make no mistake---I don't think lawmakers should make pensions, but then again I don't think any public sector worker should be getting a pension either.
(Reason). "Having them overseeing the Internet scares the shit out of me." -Mark Cuban, at the Re/code conference in California.
When you think of great service, do the words "public utility" come to mind?
Agreed. A public utility or anointed monopoly is less competitive, efficiently reliable, more costly. As Tom DiLorenzo and others point out, there is no such thing as a natural monopoly, and market dominance is always subject to tomorrow's radically cheaper innovation. In terms of the Internet, we see initiatives like Google Fiber, balloon, satellite, wireless, or fusion technologies like dark fiber buildouts to neighborhoods with wireless distribution.
As if further evidence of how dysfunctional government meddling in Internet services can be, you might want to look at the city of tech-savvy Seattle, which wanted to use dark fiber already under Seattle streets to connect fiber to the home. Their chosen vendor suddenly went out of business.
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