Comments on: Fry Day http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2008/08/fry-day/ Buffalo and Western New York's online news resource Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:03:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: know it all http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2008/08/fry-day/comment-page-1/#comment-24043 know it all Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:51:19 +0000 http://buffalopundit.wnymedia.net/blogs/archives/6801#comment-24043 why isnt "dr" james williams' contract available? why isnt “dr” james williams’ contract available?

]]> By: distresing http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2008/08/fry-day/comment-page-1/#comment-24044 distresing Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:40:41 +0000 http://buffalopundit.wnymedia.net/blogs/archives/6801#comment-24044 The information on the site includes the salaries of not just six figure superintendents and commission members, but also makes public the base salaries of nurse's aides that care for our veterans, janitors who clean up the bathrooms in the court houses and state buildings, part-time summer employees who empty garbage cans at state parks, and our state police officers. The organization sponsoring the site, The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, advocates the privatization of government services and has tried to rally public opinion in favor of the neo-conservative agenda that gave us the Iraq war and the Justice Department political screening. http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=manhattan+i... And the funding they received from the tobacco companies was in exchange for papers in their defense. I'm sure there's a segment of the population that resents every public employee for the salary and benefits they receive for the performance of their duties. Myself, I couldn't do what nurse's aides and state troopers do. I don't really think making their earnings public helps us clean up or streamline government. I think this site is more an effort to advance the Institute's political agenda than it is to advance good government. The information on the site includes the salaries of not just six figure superintendents and commission members, but also makes public the base salaries of nurse’s aides that care for our veterans, janitors who clean up the bathrooms in the court houses and state buildings, part-time summer employees who empty garbage cans at state parks, and our state police officers.

The organization sponsoring the site, The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, advocates the privatization of government services and has tried to rally public opinion in favor of the neo-conservative agenda that gave us the Iraq war and the Justice Department political screening. http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=manhattan+i... And the funding they received from the tobacco companies was in exchange for papers in their defense.

I’m sure there’s a segment of the population that resents every public employee for the salary and benefits they receive for the performance of their duties. Myself, I couldn’t do what nurse’s aides and state troopers do. I don’t really think making their earnings public helps us clean up or streamline government. I think this site is more an effort to advance the Institute’s political agenda than it is to advance good government.

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