{"id":10438,"date":"2009-11-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:14:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:14:54","slug":"how-noble-of-you-meg-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/08\/how-noble-of-you-meg-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"How Noble of You, Meg Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=mortgagedfutu-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=1583229035\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" align=right marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>As if she was reading from Ralph Nader&#8217;s new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1583229035?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=mortgagedfutu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1583229035\">Only the Super Rich Can Save Us<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mortgagedfutu-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1583229035\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, Meg Whitman has come down from her ivory tower to inform the plebes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/026871.html\">she will not be accepting the governor&#8217;s salary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How generous of her. &nbsp;She&#8217;s worth a billion, give or take a couple hundred million, and she&#8217;s willing to pass on the $200 K or so. Incidentally, the Bee has it on good authority that Tom Campbell will accept the salary (he&#8217;s not a billionaire, you know) and Poizner (who is) will also accept the salary.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we need to know this? &nbsp;Perhaps so that we can feel just how small we really are. It&#8217;s certainly not to solve any budget problems, as the amount of money won&#8217;t by itself really break the budget one way or the other. &nbsp;No, this is a gesture that says to the people of California that she is making a big sacrifice to take this job, and that we should be thrilled to have her experience and ill-informed judgment to save us.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I&#8217;ll be happy to pay a governor for the work he does. We got the last one on the cheap, as Arnold isn&#8217;t accepting a salary either, and look what that got us. &nbsp;Sometimes you get what you pay for. &nbsp;And trust me, it&#8217;ll be worth it to pay the cash for a governor who has a clue about the problems facing the state, can reasonably discuss the issues, and isn&#8217;t there to shock doctrine the state.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t do us any favors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/chris-kelly\/five-questions-for-meg-wh_b_294784.html\">Meg Whitman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=mortgagedfutu-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=1583229035\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" align=right marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>As if she was reading from Ralph Nader&#8217;s new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1583229035?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=mortgagedfutu-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1583229035\">Only the Super Rich Can Save Us<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mortgagedfutu-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1583229035\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, Meg Whitman has come down from her ivory tower to inform the plebes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/026871.html\">she will not be accepting the governor&#8217;s salary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How generous of her. &nbsp;She&#8217;s worth a billion, give or take a couple hundred million, and she&#8217;s willing to pass on the $200 K or so. Incidentally, the Bee has it on good authority that Tom Campbell will accept the salary (he&#8217;s not a billionaire, you know) and Poizner (who is) will also accept the salary.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we need to know this? &nbsp;Perhaps so that we can feel just how small we really are. It&#8217;s certainly not to solve any budget problems, as the amount of money won&#8217;t by itself really break the budget one way or the other. &nbsp;No, this is a gesture that says to the people of California that she is making a big sacrifice to take this job, and that we should be thrilled to have her experience and ill-informed judgment to save us.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I&#8217;ll be happy to pay a governor for the work he does. We got the last one on the cheap, as Arnold isn&#8217;t accepting a salary either, and look what that got us. &nbsp;Sometimes you get what you pay for. &nbsp;And trust me, it&#8217;ll be worth it to pay the cash for a governor who has a clue about the problems facing the state, can reasonably discuss the issues, and isn&#8217;t there to shock doctrine the state.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t do us any favors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/chris-kelly\/five-questions-for-meg-wh_b_294784.html\">Meg Whitman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[415,4467,770,840],"class_list":["post-10438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-415","tag-4467","tag-770","tag-840"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Im","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}