Diabolical, Mr. Scott. I was livid about my salary being posted

[rzemanfl]

on the Internet. Now that your website works, I am livid about what some other people are making. Great way to sow dissension in the ranks of the people you are determined to turn into serfs.

[Snoutport]

1. he posted wages?!

this guy is as low as they get!!

[SharonAnn]

10. The only reason they're kept secret is to hid overpaid and underpaid people's salaries

There's no other reason.

Think about it.

Why do companies keep salaries secret? What are they hiding?

[rzemanfl]

13. I have to admit that I was appalled at what some people who

have demonstrated over and over again that they are incompetent are making. Of course this is exactly what our Governor wants, to get state workers at each others throats, not his.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. MO does that too

It sucks.

[rzemanfl]

20. But in the "Show Me" state, isn't that to be expected? eom

[Buzz Clik]

2. My salary has been made public for over 20 years.

I believe that most if not all states tend to make their employees salaries public knowledge.

[gateley]

3. And some companies - although none I've ever worked for. I had a friend who

was a VP at Seattle First National Bank. He showed me this wallet sized card that had the salaries of every level of employee and management.

[rzemanfl]

5. Ours are public record and always have been, but now any

12 year-old with a PC can get them.

[sabrina 1]

8. Just because something has been done for a long time

doesn't make it right. Salaries can be published generically, without publishing people's names or other personal info about them.

But we have been so abused for so long in this country that stuff like this which would have outraged a more civil society, is now accepted. Like serfs, we have been taught our place!

What this SHOULD do is remind people that it is something else we need to fix. So that a far right, wacho, criminal governor (only a very abused society could have voted for him in the first place) could not use it as a tool to attack people who disagree with him, with.

Lack of healthcare was 'done' for a long time also and many Americans actually thought it was okay because they got used to it. They couldn't believe that it was not that way in other countries and fiercely denied it.

Abused populations tend to not know how abused they are until they go live somewhere else.

[Buzz Clik]

23. Right or wrong, it was the law in both states where it happened to me.

I just can't get outraged because some DU poster discovered that their salary was posted online.

[jacquelope]

15. What benefit do we get out of knowing specific names to go with salaries? n/t

.

[Buzz Clik]

24. I have no idea. I hate it, and I avoid looking at them.

However, it's the way it is, so I deal with it.

[BoWanZi]

4. Who is Mr. Scott? Link?

is

[rzemanfl]

7. Rick Scott, Governor of Florida. Link is :

http://floridahasarighttoknow.com/

[dems_rightnow]

6. Our paper publishes USD wages annually.

It's all public info. But it's always felt weird when I saw it.

[Shagbark Hickory]

9. Walker is an antagonistic bastard, isn't he? Great timing bozo.

[rzemanfl]

11. Last name Scott not first name Scott. FL not WI, same types but

ours was in Medicaid fraud first and got filthy rich.

[Scuba]

12. Yeah but Wisconsites and Floridians are getting bulk discounts on bumper stickers. n/t

[Shagbark Hickory]

14. Oh Duh. Yeah I mixed them up.

[rzemanfl]

18. Don't feel bad, half the time I get my left and right socks mixed

up. These guys are like socks.

[Shagbark Hickory]

27. Dirty, stinky ones.

[Nye Bevan]

17. If taxpayers are paying peoples' wages, shouldn't we know how much we are paying them?

I know my town publishes the wages of municipal employees. And we know the salaries of the President, Cabinet, Congressmen, etc. Generally I think openness is better than secrecy. When salaries are kept secret it is *much* easier to hide discrimination by sex, race and age. A woman might be paid 20% less than her male colleagues doing the same job, but if salaries are secret, how would she ever know?

[rzemanfl]

19. These number have always been public record, just not out on

the Internet for any 12 year-old with a PC to look at.

[Malikshah]

21. Because they can be inaccurate or non existent and clearly don't tell the whole story.

But as they're public for the entire public to see, why not. Nothing like promoting inaccuracy to angry up the blood.

This whole "paying people's wages" shtick is getting old.

BTW...I work in the system but couldn't find my name anywhere on the rolls...been working in it for over 10 years....

I did find a person working since 1986 who makes a little under 29k a year in an administrative position. What a slacker layabout!!!!!!

[sabrina 1]

25. They could publish categories of jobs without names.

A list of salaries paid for certain jobs and what they are depending on the length of time people are there eg.

There is absolutely no need to publish people's names other than to use it as a tool in a vicious, vengeful attack on the working class.

I want to know where Scott hides his money, what offshore accounts he and his tax avoiding wealthy buddies have and where.

If we are going to be this transparant with workers personal information, then let's do it for everyone.

And if they hide anything, the penalties should be severe, like long prison terms.

[Nye Bevan]

26. OK, that's a fair point (nt)

[RBInMaine]

22. So, then post what the KOCH brothers make, and what Walker makes, and what all the greedy right

wing assholes in WI make, and post the HUGE wage disparity and tax disparity between what middle and lower income workers make and what the rich make.