Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari crash (-ed by brainless, spoiled-brat athlete)

[LarryT (l02turner]

Rick wrote <<if someone offered me $45mm a year >>
   On a similar note - I am on full disability - paid for ostensibly by my 
years of input into SS.  Rec';d my letter stating what I'd get starting with 
my next check - a Cost of Living increase of 5.8%!

   But 5.8 freakin %?? - I never had a raise like that when I actually 
worked for it!  (Well maybe once) - but while I'll take it - in line with 
our recent conversation - and spend it - especially when I think of the 100s 
of Billions $$ Congress throw's away - at least my paltry check will buy 
food and shelter, along with some Premium Unleaded (with 10% ethanol) for my 
baby - at least I buy something useful!

   Sending money to CEO's who ran their company ground and walked away with 
$10s or $100s of millions just seems questionable though.

   While I'm still uneasy with my  5.8% increase - doesn't seem right - 
until you consider Freddie/Fannie, Barnie F & Chucky S. - and all the 
others - maybe my few $$s are ok after all.

;-)  Have a nice weekend --

Sincerely,
Larry T  (74 911, 91 300D 2.5T)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
To: "LarryT" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Ferrari crash (-ed by brainless, spoiled-brat 
athlete)


> Larry wrote,
>
> > Sounds like the telephone pole is at fault - if it
> > hadn't been there, he wouldn't have hit it!
>
> It wouldn't surprise me one bit if his fans and the media didn't take up 
> that exact argument.  We raise our sports heroes to god-like levels and 
> then ignore their indiscretions when they don't live up to the image. 
> Just look at how many football players have criminal convictions - which 
> were down-played or forgiven!  Any of us try that and we'd be sitting in 
> jail, not earning millions from adoring fans.  (Same holds true for most 
> politicians, BTW.)
>
> Even our own Michael Schumacher is held on high and described as a 
> fantastic engineer.  Is he an engineer?  Does he hold an earned college 
> education?  No doubt he is incredibly talented, is good at communicating 
> what a race car is doing to his engineers, and is a good tactician - but 
> somehow I don't think he studied partial differential equations and fluid 
> dynamics.  Is he really an engineer?
>
> And it is not the player's fault that they are treated the way they are. 
> It is the fans and the media that turn these people into gods.  The same 
> might be said of the salaries that these people command.  They don't pay 
> themselves.  It is us, the fans who elevate their importance to the level 
> where competition generates the salaries.  Given that, if someone offered 
> me $45mm a year to do what I already do, would I take it?  You bet your 
> ass I would.  And it wouldn't be MY fault for doing so.  And I wouldn't be 
> a god just because I can do my job well.
>
> regards,
>
> rick