{"id":7903,"date":"2009-02-16T22:14:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T03:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2009-02-16T22:14:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T03:14:33","slug":"head-mailmans-salary-beats-prez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7903","title":{"rendered":"Head Mailman&#8217;s salary beats Prez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some of the excellent management practices we can expect from the government in the way of oversight on the stimulus bill, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/feb\/17\/in-hard-times-postmaster-earned-800000-in-pay-perk\/\">Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Postmaster General John E. Potter recently warned that economic times are so dire that the U.S. Postal Service may end mail delivery one day a week and freeze executive salaries. But his personal fortunes are nonetheless rising thanks to 40 percent in pay raises since 2006, a $135,000 bonus last year and several perks usually reserved for corporate CEOs.<\/p>\n<p>The changes, approved by the Postal Board of Governors and contained in a little-noticed regulatory filing in December, brought Mr. Potter&#8217;s total compensation and retirement benefits to more than $800,000 in 2008. That is more than double the salary for President Obama. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We get some of the worst and most unreliable service in modern communications from the Post Office, they&#8217;re going to cut back on their poor services, and yet the fellow in charge makes more than his own boss. <\/p>\n<p>Congress yells and screams about over-compensated CEOs, yet right under their collective nose, in the realm of their actual duties, in the purview of their oversight responsibilities, here&#8217;s a guy getting away with tax payer dollars under the same circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, this stimulus bill will work so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some of the excellent management practices we can expect from the government in the way &hellip; <a title=\"Head Mailman&#8217;s salary beats Prez\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7903\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Head Mailman&#8217;s salary beats Prez<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}