Just kidding, Cain to me is nothing more that a ruthless business man who I would bet a small fortune, did not earn without breaking a few laws.

Anyone that thinks a CEO is anything like a President needs to get their meds adjusted drastically.  

It's one thing to run a board meeting where you are basically setting the tone, especially when numbers are good.  And certainly if he is vindictive, no one is going to call him out.  

And secondly, beyond the board, he is the king of the company, not the same as the president.  A gaff at work maybe gets some whispers, a gaff at the podium is front page news.  He simply doesn't have the skills and isn't polished enough to be a high politician.

"If they don't have a clear power structure organized around specific demands first, then I'll never be able to completely tune them out due to a political conflict of interest or an inability to comprehend complex, detailed economic concepts. These people really need to get their act together."

The report also states she's been in counseling and attending the theft program as required and making progress in both.

I don't see what difference it makes what community service she does. When I used to do state cases a long time ago, I would propose the type of community service to the court. If I had a hairdresser, I'd ask that she be able to do hair at a nursing home or hospital. It should be meaningful. Sentences are not just punishment, they are also designed to rehabilitate. What rehabilitative value does community service have if the offender doesn't feel good about it? It's not like the Red Cross isn't a worthy cause. It sounds to me like the judge had a pet project (the Women's Center).

what that article leaves out is stuff like this:

But any compensation comparison between the average federal civilian employee and average private-sector employee oversimplifies the debate, glossing over the important differences in occupation, skill level, age, and education that determine salaries. The BEA has posted an FAQ on federal pay, providing a number of reasons why the average compensation for federal civilian employees is higher than the average compensation for private-sector employees:

■Federal civilian workers are more educated.
■The federal government has a higher proportion of white-collar jobs.
■"Lower-skilled (and lower-paid) positions have been contracted out to private industries" in recent years, raising the average pay of federal civilian employees.
■Federal civilian workers receive better pension and health insurance benefits on average than private-sector employees, some of whom receive no benefits.

Furthermore, the $123,049 average compensation figure for federal workers is greatly inflated -- and several thousand dollars too high. The BEA tells us that total compensation includes an unknown amount for retirees' health and life insurance benefits. More importantly, it includes billions of dollars that Congress appropriates each year to pay "unfunded liabilities" for retirees and current workers covered by the old Civil Service Retirement System before it was replaced for newly hired workers starting Jan. 1, 1987. These payments for former workers obviously don't benefit current workers, and should not be included in their average total compensation.

SNIP

The Office of Personnel Management reports that 44.3 percent of federal civilian workers held a bachelor's degree in 2008. That's more than double the percentage of private sector employees who have a bachelor's. The Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota provided us with comparable data for private-sector employees: 18.7 percent held a BA in 2008.