They will.
It may sound like a job too good to be true – earning $270,000/year for only 20 minutes of work (in the entire year), but such a job actually exists. Where? In Iraq’s parliament.
Iraqi lawmakers have collected their $90,000 stipend, they’re raking in $22,500 a month in salaries and allowances, and they’re spending free nights in Baghdad’s finest hotel — and they’ve only worked about 20 minutes this year, without passing a single law.
Since June, when the lawmakers first met for 20 minutes, Iraq’s second elected parliament since the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime has failed to convene. Sharp divisions among political blocs have prevented the formation of a new government, and not a single law has been debated, much less passed.
The American occupation of the country seems to have worked. The Iraqi leadership is paying itself insane figures for doing nothing (because they are free to determine their own paychecks), while the income for the rest of the population rarely exceeds $600. And then the United States wonder, “why don’t they love us, we gave them democracy!”
Anyway, where do I sign up for a job like that?
- http://www.facebook.com/KenKlenke Ken Klenke
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