Doin’ The “J.R. Hustle”

So U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts thinks that the low level (in his mind) of compensation for Supreme Court and federal court judges is “a constitutional crisis” (as noted here)?

Uh, no. I would consider one-party rule of our government to be a constitutional crisis (which, fortunately, was broken by a third last November 7th).

A commenter to this post noted that “big firms in NY pay 145k for students straight out of law school, before bonuses....165k for a federal judge seems very low.”

I respect what this person is saying, but I’m tired of hearing people compare the salaries of government employees (which is what The Supremes and federal court judges are in the final analysis) with employees in what was once commonly referred to as private industry. And you’d better believe that I’m tired of hearing the bellyaching about this from politicians in general, particularly the Repugs.

My father worked in government for years back when that was actually an attractive employment option. He knew he wasn’t going to get rich, but he also knew we’d have good medical benefits, a fairly comfortable standard of living, and he could retire with his pension when he reached the mandatory age (which he did). He didn’t worry about investing his retirement funds to get rich, and he also didn’t have to worry about whether or not the money would be there when he needed it (probably taking a detour into another topic here, but you get my point).

I just happen to think something’s wrong when somebody complains about a salary that is more than that earned by 90 percent of the workers in this country, as another Angry Bear commenter noted.

But of course this is typical of the “let them eat cake” mentality of Bushco and its acolytes, including Roberts.

I wonder how happy the Dems are who once voted to confirm this carpetbagger?