Gene Kearns wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:26:45 -0400, Lu Powell penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|From the website of Free Library, at
|http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Some+e...e.-a0192591436
|
|
|"Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama, for example.
|The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her in 2002 to run "programs
|for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff
|diversity, and minority contracting." In 2005 the hospital raised her salary
|from $120,000 to $317,000--nearly twice what her husband made as a U.S.
|senator. Oh, did we mention that he had just become a U.S. senator? He sure
|had. Requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact. Way
|to network, Michelle! But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital
|says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did
|was vital enough to be worth $317,000? We can think of only one explanation:
|Roland Burris's wife wasn't interested."
|

I can only assume it is just another example of hospitals overcharging
patients so they will have huge quantities of cash to squander in
foolish ways......



$300,000 isn't a lot in a major city for someone working as a "rainmaker."

Lu lives in a part of Florida that until recently paid teachers with
master's degrees $28,000 a year, and where a very special bit of
corruption between the local cops and infrastructure contractors has
"off duty" cops snoozing in the local government's patrol cars at the
sites "protecting" highway construction sites.