A little perspective on the World Bank/Wolfowitz affair, from Digby commenter Joejoejoe:
The White House says giving your girlfriend a $60,000 raise to $193,000 for a no-show job is “not a firing offence”.
I was talking to the cashier at my local Sav-a-Lot after he gave me too much change one day (two bills stuck together) and he told me if he’s off by more than $5 in his drawer at the end of the day he gets a warning. If it happens a second time he gets fired.
My local cashier lives his life two sticky bills away from being unemployed and yet it’s somehow excused that Paul Wolfowitz basically cheated the World Bank out of sixty large US. I wish the press would put some kind of “real world” context in every story about the elites. The dollar figure from Wolfowitz’s screw job is enough to get 6,000 cashiers fired but it’s not enough to fire the World Bank president. What a cruel farce.
joejoejoe | 05.15.07 – 3:58 pm | #
