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Though overtime is rare for most, for some it is a pot of taxpayer gold. Well, the trade-offs remain, but salaries often are above the private sector average. Long ago government salaries were below the private sector but the trade-off was exceptional security, benefits and a pension.
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Rick Perry's engineered, tax-funded retirement and the recent Travis Health District director's 50 percent increase in a period when most salaries have remained stagnant. It is the best in the world!Įach time I read about increases in taxpayer-funded salaries and retirements, I wince, as I did reading about Gov. Change is needed, but don't bad-mouth the service. Think a commercial company could take over mail delivery, not cost more and be more timely? Could not be done! It's agreed the Postal Service has been poorly managed in several ways. I've experienced some foreign countries' mail systems and they do not come close to the quality of this country's. That contrasts with parcel delivery services that charge far more, take longer for delivery and have the possibility of package theft. A package can always be sent economically, with great security and a short delivery time. This has been my experience for many years. My letters and cards are sent all across the country, and I can depend on delivery for the majority of them to the address by the second day after mailing, and at the most on the third day.
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This letter proposed poor service to be the real problem for the U.S. Y'know, if we only educated males in our schools, we could cut the school budget even more. I wonder if he has given any thought to having women wear burkas. I can only assume that after he is forced to give up his presidential aspirations (for now), Texans will find that all birth control devices will be forbidden. On a brighter subject, he is now convinced that the life of a fetus is so important that even if the mother's life is endangered, there should be no abortion. Now I see he is suing the State of Virginia because he didn't find enough people wanting him to be president to get on the primary ballot. Rick Perry has managed to find roughly $100,000 a week (of Texas taxpayer money) to blow on an ego trip when he had to cut so much from the state budget that teachers were laid off. Lightman does acknowledge that believing in multiple universes, or panspermia, something that can't be seen or proven, requires an act of faith.
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This reminds me of Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, who became a proponent of "directed panspermia." Directed panspermia is the theory that aliens implanted their DNA on Earth. This theory can't be measured or proved, but it is more acceptable to scientists than the other possibility - that our world is the product of an intelligent creator. I read with great interest about the Sidney Awards and clicked on the link to the essay by Alan Lightman, "The Accidental Universe." I find it fascinating that scientists are finally accepting that it is statistically improbable that our universe formed randomly and to explain this reality, they now increasingly support a theory of countless, multiple universes of which ours is only one. 27 editorial, "Let Anderson's record be heard by a court." Wake up, Austin! Our Austin power is driven by PC, not by facts. If not, why are all new and major ocean-going vessels, including our own Navy, powered by nuclear? We are faced with ever-rising power costs because Austin Energy continues to dabble in PC sources. The most effective source of power is nuclear. Thus, the power grid requires standby generators currently using oil or gas. And, despite best efforts, there are no economical storage facilities to hold electricity when winds are absent. Wind generation depends on wind, an extreme variable. In the case of solar power, there exists NO major power producer that does not supplement the heat gained from solar with large quantities of heat from natural gas furnaces to produce sufficient steam to run its electric generators. Why do not the mechanical engineers at the University of Texas use their knowledge and influence to bring reality to the economics of solar power and wind power?