This is a majorly farked up world

[KvHagedorn]

That is all I am allowed to say, also because this is a majorly farked up world.

[GT98]

tell me smoething I dont know already?

[KvHagedorn]

Just look at the front page of today's Parade if you need reminding.

[DGhost]

what people earn?

did they happen to include any enlisted soldiers in that?

[KvHagedorn]

Even the SFC who makes $85,000 (which I found amazingly high) makes 1/247th of what some retarded basketball player does.

[DGhost]

that is retardedly high. base pay (for a year) is about $48k (little lower). if you include a housing allowance and maybe proficency pay, he might see that. i would guesstimate average is going to be lower though.

[Dr Mordrid]

Try this on for size:

here in Michigan a starting school administrator with NO teaching certificate can get > $110,000/yr, meaning this perxon can't even relive his/her $40k/yr underlings for lunch but can tell them how do to their jobs

This is as much as a US congressman makes and twice the salary of many cops or firefighters with 5-10 years on the force

Dr. Mordrid

[KvHagedorn]

My cousin is a speech therapist/teacher. I believe that crap. This is just another reason the USA is not living up to its potential. The right people are never in charge.

[Jon P. Inghram]

I'm getting paid $6/hr and have been getting ~20 hours a week every other week.

[Helevitia]

Try this on for size:

here in Michigan a starting school administrator with NO teaching certificate can get > $110,000/yr, meaning this perxon can't even relive his/her $40k/yr underlings for lunch but can tell them how do to their jobs

This is as much as a US congressman makes and twice the salary of many cops or firefighters with 5-10 years on the force

Dr. Mordrid

I have a hard time believing that. You got any proof?

[Helevitia]

Even the SFC who makes $85,000 (which I found amazingly high) makes 1/247th of what some retarded basketball player does.

85K might be amazingly high in most of the country but in California, that would be average and you would barely be able to afford a 1000-1200sq ft house with 5000sq ft of land. That 1200sq ft house would cost you 500K.

But yes, sports figures make rediculous amounts of money. Who's fault is it though? Is it the marketing machine that brainwashes us? Is it our fault as individuals for putting these people on pedastools(sp?)?

[xortam]

I have a hard time believing that. You got any proof?

Much of it may be true (question the authority they have) but it's probably been heavily distorted in its reporting ... but I'll wait for the Doc to explain ...

[xortam]

... But yes, sports figures make rediculous amounts of money. Who's fault is it though? Is it the marketing machine that brainwashes us? Is it our fault as individuals for putting these people on pedastools(sp?)?

Wait until they start coughing up for biotech enhancements.

... and how about the mob mentality against referees and such? Ya gotta love the coliseum sports.

[Helevitia]

You know, this doesn't upset as much as the legalized extortion that the credit card companies are allowed to do. Or the nickel and diming that cell phone companies screw us over with.

Have you ever read a cedit card agreement? It basically says that they are allowed to do anything at anytime for any reason.

[KvHagedorn]

Well I don't have a cellphone because of this, and never support pro sports. I carry several cards, and when they pull something I don't like, I transfer the balance out and cancel that card angrily. About the only thing I have to do is buy some of the products whose ads support pro sports, but I stay away from Nike and American beer.

Any society that values a basketball player at 1000 times what normal hardworking people are valued at deserves to be revolutionized.