February 12, 2005

The Song Remains The Same

We have managed to remain gainfully employed with our current corpo-weasel slavedrivers benevolent bosses for over five years now. Quite a significant milestone here at the Funny Farm - because our previous record was a little over two.

We would be remiss if we didn't also point out that we have not gotten a raise since there was a legally elected president in the White House. Nathan Newman tells us that Kevin Drum (Calpundit) and Matt Yglesias (of TAP and a fabulous blogger in his own right) believe that wages have risen much faster than the cost of living. We guess that the unspoken ending to that last sentence is since the Unelected Usurper stole office. And we gots to tell ya that, from our viewpoint, the exact opposite is true - we had a steady gain in our wages during the Clinton years, and no gain whatsoever during BFEE rule. And costs have skyrocketed for us in the last four years. And we have been reliably informed that we are lucky enough to be in the upper echelon of wage earners in America* - just not up in the executroid range. Plus we are among the lucky ones in our group of family and friends - the vast majority of those near and dear to us have lost some salary during the cabal's rule, never mind factoring in the increase in the cost of living during that time.

All we're saying is: we are fairly high up in the food chain, and the last four years has been a complete and utter disaster as far as wage increases vs. the cost of living is concerned for us. We humbly suggest that Kevin and Matt get a little more reality-based research in before they profess a belief that wages are increasing faster than the cost of living during the BabyDoc years.

* - our previous boss was very fond of saying that she was being paid more than a French whore. While we didn't (and don't) make as much as she did when she ruled the department with an iron fist, our salary is considerably above the average annual salary for our state in 2002 . And we're pretty sure it's still above that average for 2004 - even if salaries increased at the same rate they did from 2001 to 2002 in the years to follow.

Posted by (: Tom :) at February 12, 2005 08:24 AM