Someone on Stormfront repeated the old line, “Why would somebody spent millions to get a 400,000 a year job?”
So I intrtroduced them to reality again:
I worked on Capitol Hill for a number of years and I never knew a congressman, outside of those who went straight to prison, who did not at least double his income when he left congress. One of my old buddies was congressman with a safe seat but he had to quit because he couldn’t afford it.
When Richard Nixon lost the presidential election of 1960 he took a job with a legal firm in California that paid 930,000 1960 dollars a year, versus the presidential pay of 150,000, but he deeply regretted losing.
I sat with a guy who was making over 500,000 1981 dollars in a bar in DC and he was literally CRYING because he couldn’t get a presidential appointment to a job paying under 100,000.
Some people want money. Others, especially people WITH money, want POWER. I was a recognized and PAID expert on power. If you could just buy power, I would be a LOT richer than I am.
The jobs I held in DC would have paid five to ten times as much in the private sector, but that is strictly theoretical. Anybody who can dedicate the one life he gets on this planet to selling farbric softener DESERVES ten times the money. I could never have done it.
You go to New York or California for money. In DC, the name of the game is power.
And no, you can’t just buy power. Power is a different game altogether.
It’s sort of like what Marilyn Monroe said in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” to the father of a rich guy she wanted to marry: “A woman shouldn’t marry a man just because he’s rich any more than a man should marry a woman for her looks. But, my goodness, it HELPS!”
Almost everybody who gets elected or appointed could get a lot more money doing something else. But if you spend your life in the power game, you find that they are very different. Bill Gates did not marry the most beautiful girl in the world or the richest.
Different goals mean entirely different methods.
#1 by Dave on 04/21/2008 - 5:05 pm
To be in the business of really and truly making sense is a very difficult undertaking. Nixon was emblematic of that.
He was continually tripping over himself on behalf of his own ambition. Worse, he was enough of an intellectual of have conned himself into believing that there was something in what he was doing that made some sort of sense.
In reality Nixon was a very ordinary brand of “high achiever”. Most of successful politicians are like Nixon, high achievers who are fundamentally loose cannons.
They have personalities that cannot be trusted. Sound judgment is not their forte. Narcissism is.
Aldous Huxley believed that a real advance in society would only be achieved when the public realized that these personalities have to be branded as dangerous, rounded up, corralled, and reined in as a matter of policy. He believed these dangerous personality types could be identified in their youth and that they should have a lifetime ban put on them, excluding them from positions of power.
What is the motivator of a Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or John McCain if it isn’t his or her own narcissism?
It is SO OBVIOUS.
Narcissism is a very poor qualification for making critical decisions for others.
White people are very powerful.
This is something that the complainers, bitchers, and moaners never see.
It is too fundamental to be seen:
One of the most basic problems we have faced throughout our history is containing each other’s considerable power. The miracle is that the conflict among us isn’t even greater than it already is.
This is Political Correctness’s hugely erroneous view of our real situation: “Here I sit alone and afraid in a world I never made.”
Our current brand of Christian missionary loves that hook to the skies.
But our real situation is like the cowboy who walks into a bar and there is only one other man in the bar sitting at the extreme opposite end. The cowboy upon entering immediately exclaims, “Pardon me, I don’t mean to make trouble, but you are crowding me!”
Then these cowboys wonder why Jews are so hostile.
#2 by shari on 04/21/2008 - 8:47 pm
I can relate to this in this way. When I married, a hundred years ago, I can honestly say I NEVER married for money. He was cute, nearly six feet, blue eyes, deep voice, but what got me is that I knew he intended to do his DAMNEDEST. Neither of us had any money, but I wanted a REAL home and a REAL family.
So I understand that it’s what a person REALLY wants that matters.
Unfortunately those who seek power now, seem to want nothing at all , but phony accolades. Perhaps to cover an awful emptyness.