AA: What world do you live in? Public servants make a fraction what corporate >heads make. EVERYONE makes fractions of what corporate heads make. I'm beginning to think you're jonesin for corporate head. I live in a world where public servants, who work FRACTIONS of the year can vote themselves obscenely high wages (over 6 figures) for basically doing nothing with very little or no accountability - i.e. they can tell bold-face lies with no repercussions until the next elections. They have two residences and a lovely expense account to pay others to do all their work. If they survive just the first re-election, they can retire on a nice cushy pension. I also live in a world where the civil servants make 18 bucks an hour for sorting mail. They can make 75,000 a year for directing traffic and eating donuts in a small town. They are NOT hurting. paul ########## Paul Stone pas@xxxxxxxx Kingsville, ON, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html