Interesting graphic re: World Leader's Salaries

TalkingDog

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Fri Feb-19-10 01:53 PM
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Interesting graphic re: World Leader's Salaries

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dmallind

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Fri Feb-19-10 01:59 PM
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1. What you really need

is the highest priced CEO in each of their countries.

Except then the figures on top of the piles shown above would be identical minuscule dots to get the huge piles onto the same image...

Yes these folks make decent money, but c'mon look at what kind of people make $400K a year and tell me OBama is overpaid. Or any of these guys.

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Posteritatis

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Fri Feb-19-10 02:01 PM
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2. That and there's generally only one head of state per state

Complaining that this one guy gets $400K or whatever when these several thousand guys over here get $5M strikes me as missing some points.

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LiberalFighter

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Fri Feb-19-10 02:13 PM
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3. This would suggest that either Obama is not paid enough or

the other leaders are paid too much.

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ThomWV

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Fri Feb-19-10 02:17 PM
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4. Is there a point in there somewhere? They all make about the same - so what?

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proteus_lives

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Fri Feb-19-10 02:20 PM
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5. It's not the salaries, it's the perks and privileges.

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alex456

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Fri Feb-19-10 02:22 PM
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6. Michelle made much more

when she worked for the University of Chicago Hospital system. Most politicians were millionaires way before they started in political office; it's not a job people do for the monetary payout (though post-administration speaking engagements are quite profitable).

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HillbillyBob

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Fri Feb-19-10 04:22 PM
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7. Then there's that lifetime pension

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deaniac21

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Fri Feb-19-10 05:05 PM
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8. The perks a us president has add up to millions every year.

After one leaves office the money REALLY flows.

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gmoney

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Fri Feb-19-10 05:10 PM
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9. By the way, the minimum salary for a major league baseball player is $380,000.

or about 280,000 Euros. So only Obama beats the salary of the worst, greenest newb 3rd-string utility infielder on the worst MLB team, and not by much.

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