Newsweek: "Gifts: Thanks So Much!"

[Contrary1]

"July 24, 2006 issue - President George W. Bush's top aides got $4,200 raises last year, according to a list of staff salaries just released by the White House. Seventeen senior aides, including chief of staff Josh Bolten, political guru Karl Rove, spokesman Tony Snow and counsel Harriet Miers, now command $165,200 a year. Bush himself makes $400,000. The bottom of the pay scale: $30,000 a year for aides who catalog gifts and handle mail. The list includes some vague titles like "confidential assistant" and "supervisor of search and file." Records show Stuart Baker, a policy chief at the Homeland Security department, was paid $100,000 as "director for lessons learned." A White House spokesman told NEWSWEEK the title refers to the administration's study of its handling of Hurricane Katrina. (On the House floor, Democrat Rahm Emanuel called on Bush to hire a "director of irony.")

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13880042/site/newsweek/

[babylonsister]

1. "director for lessons learned."????

:wtf:

Seems he is being paid way too much for the results we've seen.

[AndyA]

2. Yeah, he's apparently not going a very good job, since the Administration

hasn't seemed to learn ANYTHING from past mistakes.

Of course, it's pretty obvious the problems come from the very top.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. He must be able to work in a vacuum. As far as I can see, they

have learned no lessons so there must not be anything to track.

[zbdent]

4. Talk about a job with no

measurable product ...