AZ Nomad wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:03:28 GMT, Doug Miller
wrote:

Maybe in your state; not in mine, and, I suspect, not in most.

And that's not even remotely close to true in the Federal civil
service, *especially* in management positions. The salary of a
cabinet secretary is something like $160K -- try finding a CEO who
will work for that.

That's assuming they don't steer federal work to their companies.
BushCo's croniies got stinking rich doing exactly that.

One of Clinton's cabinet members got caught doing the same thing, if memory
serves he arranged for AT&T (which had won a huge contract to upgrade the
Saudi Arabian phone system) to send work to a company he owned. Several of
Clinton's cabinet members had either worked for the industries they were
then put in charge of (like an energy sec. who had worked for a utility
company) or had lobbied for those industries. There were also notable
changes in policy during the Clinton administration which coincidentally
came at the same time as large contributions from certain corporations to
the campaign funds of the Democratic Party and prominent Democrats.
Corruption and politicians are often found together, and it really doesn't
matter which party is in power, they all get their snouts into the trough
soon enough.