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

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

Don't feel badly for one second about your 'raise'.  In life, we don't get what 
we deserve (Thank God!)  We just get what we get.

rick


--- On Fri, 1/9/09, LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net> wrote:

> From: LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Ferrari crash (-ed by brainless, spoiled-brat athlete)
> To: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
> Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 12:04 PM
> 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