[geeks] Politics (was Re: KVM for Sun Sparc Servers with USB keyboards)

[Joshua Boyd]

Hint, subject line change time.

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:11:17PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:

> > amen!  and it could stand for industry and government generally - but
> > who guards the guardians?
> 
> Given the disparity between a senior civil servant's salary and a
> senior banker's salary, it should become obvious quite quickly which
> ones are corrupt. We also already have mechanisms in place to guard the
> guardians, so there's no reason why these mechanisms couldn't be
> extended to cover this too.

Yes, obviously the politicians.

The bankers are mostly honest about how much they get, but the
politician says he only gets a little money, but then he accepts a free
vacation home, a free remodel of the vacation home, somehow his
nephew gets a 4 million no-bid cost plus contract, and when he retires
he gets a "consulting" position (with stock and many perks) with a
company that he gave very large earmarks to.

The investment banker might make more, but the politician is still often
less honest.