tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16801508.post6881624451615661516..comments2024-02-26T01:23:43.923-06:00Comments on Loretta Nall: On the different standards for bloggers and the MSMLoretta Nallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598106614871958352noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16801508.post-52232370433627560652008-07-28T18:50:00.000-05:002008-07-28T18:50:00.000-05:00gracias Kathy!gracias Kathy!Loretta Nallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10598106614871958352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16801508.post-15943236392966451132008-07-28T18:32:00.000-05:002008-07-28T18:32:00.000-05:00Great minds! I linked to your earlier piece on th...<A HREF="http://www.queervoice.net/kmcmullen/2008/07/28/troy-king-and-the-amazing-incredible-expanding-paychecks/" REL="nofollow">Great minds!</A> I linked to your earlier piece on the article, and I'm going to add a link to this one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16801508.post-15515063608531664822008-07-28T14:25:00.000-05:002008-07-28T14:25:00.000-05:00I will offer two comments from my front porch.Firs...I will offer two comments from my front porch.<BR/><BR/>First...a blogger has a limit on what they can say...because if they defame or lie a bit over a story....then they are cheating the system. Course, if you were writing a parody, and saying such....with names changed....then you can write just about anything you want. So in your case...I might be making up some names (from racy 3rd rate trailer trash novels) to discuss what you need to talk about.<BR/><BR/>Then we come to the $57k dollar man. For a kid from Troy University...say just a year or two out...then I'd be asking a few questions. How many other guys from Troy state make $57k a year after two years? I'd be guessing over the past ten years....NONE. I can think of some Auburn or Alabama engineer grad's...who are making $80k a year right now...but then they are doing real work to earn that. A journalist? Well....ifing you were working for the Birmingham newspaper folks...at 25 years old...I'd doubt that they'd pay more than $35k max for a young guy. And if I worked for any news bureau in Bama....I wure wouldn't make more than $40k a year over the first four years. <BR/><BR/>So here's the final thing to consider. If this episode had never occurred...the the AG would have continued on....making governor and taking his favorite assistant along...moving his yearly pay up to $80k as the chief of staff for the new governor. Four to eight years would pass....and then our favorite governor would have taken a senator position...and taking the young assistant with him to DC...promoting him up to $120k a year. All along, special lobbyists would have paid off this assistant with bribes to ensure they got their agenda in front of the governor. The grad from Troy, would have been making $125k a year by the time he turned 35 years old...and really had no experience except knowing how to handle his boss. This is the sad part about this story...the Troy State dude could have made his first million by age 45...just by being an assistant. We are working in the wrong line of work...I think....but then I'm from Bama....and it pains me to think like that.Schnitzel_Republichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07661743281187855265noreply@blogger.com