This is so comical...

[Wahbooz]

and should be in a humor forum. Rick Snyder has been getting heat for the huge wage increases for several of the states executives, 80 and 90% to be exact. Jon Braeutigam received a 90+% pay increase, to $330,000 from $175,000, and Robert Brackenbury and Greg Parker received an increase to $233,000 from $128,000. In addition another 38 employees in the investment sector of state government shared in $380,000 in "performance incentive payments". This in a year that Snyder and other Lansing politicians insist raising the minimum wage is 'not doable'.

The reason for the generous pay increases? Snyder claimed that was the doing of the compensation committee, and then he claimed it was because it was so difficult to find people to fill the positions.

Wait...... these people have had extensive careers with the state, these positions didn't need filling.
Jon Braeutigam has been with the state of Michigan for over 17 years. Greg Parker has been with the state since 1997, as an investment analyst. Robert Brackenbury has also had an extensive career with the state, including being a tribunal judge under the Department of Consumer and Industry Services, since about 1997.

So what shall we use as an excuse next governor? Perhaps they were living below the poverty level?

 

[Wahbooz]

The Detroit Free Press has endorsed Gov. Rick Snyder in the upcoming election, but it should be pointed out they did it holding their collective noses. If a third party candidate was available, they would have endorsed that person. I would like to see a third party candidate, but I feel sorry for working people if Snyder gets re-elected. If he doesn't come up with policies that affect working people, he is liable to cave to those more radical in his party. What next, governor, taxing Social Security?

 

[Drumcollie]

Despite what constituents outside of Washington might think, members of Congress are underpaid, a House Legislative Branch appropriator suggested Thursday.

Virginia Democrat James P. Moran said he plans to highlight the injustice by introducing an amendment to the Legislative Branch bill during its full committee markup, and at floor consideration of the bill. Moran made the comments while the bill that funds members’ $174,000 salaries was being marked up in the Legislative Branch subcommittee.

“I think the American people should know that the members of Congress are underpaid,” Moran told CQ Roll Call. “I understand that it’s widely felt that they underperform, but the fact is that this is the board of directors for the largest economic entity in the world.”

http://blogs.rollcall.com/hill-blotter/moran-members-cant-afford-to-live-decently-in-d-c/

It's even more funny when The Party who has controlled the debt since 2007 with 2/3rds control Of House Senate of Presidency and Veto power, which let the debt rise almost 10 trillion(see: treasurydirect.gov)

uh oh wait it's not so funny when democratic 1 percenters claim they cannot live on their wages.

 

[Wahbooz]

http://blogs.rollcall.com/hill-blotter/moran-members-cant-afford-to-live-decently-in-d-c/

It's even more funny when The Party who has controlled the debt since 2007 with 2/3rds control Of House Senate of Presidency and Veto power, which let the debt rise almost 10 trillion(see: treasurydirect.gov)

uh oh wait it's not so funny when democratic 1 percenters claim they cannot live on their wages.

Oh bullshyte. How the hell does someone go into Congress and come out a millionaire, and yet be underpaid? I don't give a damn if it's a Democrat or a Republican, you signed on so shut up and take what you're getting.

 

[connieb]

and should be in a humor forum. Rick Snyder has been getting heat for the huge wage increases for several of the states executives, 80 and 90% to be exact. Jon Braeutigam received a 90+% pay increase, to $330,000 from $175,000, and Robert Brackenbury and Greg Parker received an increase to $233,000 from $128,000. In addition another 38 employees in the investment sector of state government shared in $380,000 in "performance incentive payments". This in a year that Snyder and other Lansing politicians insist raising the minimum wage is 'not doable'.

The reason for the generous pay increases? Snyder claimed that was the doing of the compensation committee, and then he claimed it was because it was so difficult to find people to fill the positions.

Wait...... these people have had extensive careers with the state, these positions didn't need filling.
Jon Braeutigam has been with the state of Michigan for over 17 years. Greg Parker has been with the state since 1997, as an investment analyst. Robert Brackenbury has also had an extensive career with the state, including being a tribunal judge under the Department of Consumer and Industry Services, since about 1997.

So what shall we use as an excuse next governor? Perhaps they were living below the poverty level?

Wow, that is pretty egregious. I can't believe he would even attempt to justify it that way. And, really what was the committee thinking if indeed it was their recommendation? Those seem like pretty hefty salaries. I don't think it particularly relates to raising the minimum wage, because its one thing for the state to decide they want to overpay their employees, its an entire other thing for the state to force individual employers to do that. However, as a tax-payer, if I am not getting a raise, those in Gov't sure as hell shouldn't be either.

 

[Wahbooz]

Wow, that is pretty egregious. I can't believe he would even attempt to justify it that way. And, really what was the committee thinking if indeed it was their recommendation? Those seem like pretty hefty salaries. I don't think it particularly relates to raising the minimum wage, because its one thing for the state to decide they want to overpay their employees, its an entire other thing for the state to force individual employers to do that. However, as a tax-payer, if I am not getting a raise, those in Gov't sure as hell shouldn't be either.

Exactly. They took away the EITC, they reduced the homestead property tax credit for seniors, and then they go and do something like this. I am not about to accept that the compensation committee, on their own, determined that 80 and 90% pay raises were justified. And I doubt it was the committees idea, not when Snyder has changed the story three times. People with that many years with the state, and vested in retirement, are not going to leave state service unless they get almost double their income.

This isn't the only situation. Andy Dillon left his post as Treasury Secretary, and yet his income continued.

Dillon was appointed by Governor Snyder to be the Michigan State Treasurer and took office in 2011. On October 11, 2013, Dillon resigned, citing his desire to protect his family from media attention and scrutiny related to his divorce proceedings.[3] He then became a temporary senior adviser to his successor, Kevin Clinton, and continued to receive the same salary he had as treasurer, $174,204 annually.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Dillon#State_Treasurer

 

[Wahbooz]

Oh, and they taxed seniors pensions as well.