Tony Blair now earns 1m / year at JPMorgan

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=507505


So there you have it people. Previously known as J P Morgan & Co (which you'll be familiar with from part 3 of Zeitgeist), JPMorgan is now employing our beloved Tony Bliar with a 1m / year job.

DO THEY HAVE TO FREAKING SPELL IT OUT TO US?
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No, the message is loud and clear. But hey, thats the way of the world you know.

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[Zen Dog]

I just think if you serve a full term as PM, you should then be retired for the rest of your life, they give you a little house, and you get your meals paid for etc.

But you're not allowed to own ANYTHING, or indeed have any money or anything else. Being PM should mean giving up the rest of your life for the good of the country. And your only role will be helping to advise the next PM (which i think would probably be useful).

Of course, if you did that no bugger would want to be PM, but at least it'll help cut down on the corruption a bit...

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[Itchy]

The actual only realistic option is to pay them millions, I don't like it nor I doubt would you.

In that big PLCs have bosses that are all paid millions and millions , this attracts the BEST talent out there to do the job. Football clubs know this , so do PLCs.

And since they are being paid millions and millions , they won't have a need to join such companies in their retirement.

Also on the flip side bribes would have to be MUCH MUCH larger and thus easier to catch , ie a certain MP who was caught not declaring 100K , when his salary is about 70K a 100K bribe is 100+% of his income,

Now if he is paid say 30 million a year, small easy to hide bribes won't happen benefit vs chance of being caught since a 1mil bribe is only 1/30th rather than 1000% of his salary.

Unpleasant but probably necessary,

But this doesn't contra the factor of human greed in that virtually all of us could live happily the rest of our lives with 2 million in the bank , yet you get certain people who have 100 million in the bank , yet still want more.

Hell you get people with 50bn in the bank and still want more.
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our company does the payroll for cv. ill have to keep an eye out for him in the payroll

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I think government ministers (and their families) should be executed upon leaving office. That'll make sure that (a) they are commited to their job, and (b) they won't be starting any wars so that they can profit from them at a later date.
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[ColdInsomnia]

The whole system.. of politicians being paid a far higher income than the average citizen... is silly.

By rewarding politicians with wages that are 5/6x that of the minimum wage, and (at a rough guess) 2x that of the average income... (And that's not including all the stuff they get to write off as 'expenses')... We are putting politicians in a class above the average man.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't democracy all about giving power to the average man?

The system we have at the moment, democracy gives power to the average man, but forces him to pass that power on to the 'higher' classes in society.

How can politicians possibly know what is best for the average citizen when they all live such comfortable and detached lives from the rest of us?

Gordon Brown never has to worry about getting mugged as he walks to the shop by rotten little kids hanging around on the street corner. Neither does any politician - you can guarantee that they live in the nicest area's that they can afford.

We're essentially back to the old 'Lord Lives In His Castle Whilst The Peasants Roll In Pig Shit'. It's just disguised behind a thin veil of votes.

The system is flawed, we're starting to see the effect of the flaws, and the common citizen, as usual, is the one who will bear the brunt of the problems that the greedier elements of society will inflict upon them.

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