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Ca serait le dernier en Francais. Amusez-vous bien.

Fil OuvertPost + Comments (72)

It seems like a good time for an open thread.

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WaPo has an interesting “what people make” chart: Ed Meese makes $293,500 as a Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Not bad for sitting around with your thumbs up your ass churning out right-wing bullshit with the help of some interns.

That’s slightly more than Jon Podesta makes for being the head of Center for American Progress. Strobe Talbot makes $412,500 heading up the Brookings Institute Institution (which, as I understand it, used to be liberal but is now primarily neocon).

Update. This is interesting (from 2004):

Edwin J. Feulner Jr., president of the Heritage Foundation, earned $540,776 in 2003, which consumed about 1.7 percent of the charity’s $31.5-million of income. Mr. Feulner has received bonuses exceeding $200,000 in each of the past seven years — a compensation structure that Ted Schelenski, Heritage’s vice president of finance and administration, attributes to the organization’s desire to “operate as much like a business as possible.”

That was in 2003, so assuming a 4 percent raise per year (which seems about right, based on the typical increases mentioned in the article), he would be making about 685K in 2009.

Update update: In fact, Feulner made 855K in 2007.

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Hope you all have a good one. Had planned to bbq with friends, but it is raining with not a ray of sunshine in sight, so I think it is going to be a solid day of lying on the couch with the dog on my lap, reading, and maybe some chinese delivery.

Sounds like a pretty good back-up plan, doesn’t it?

Labor DayPost + Comments (68)