Selfless Robert Klein Wants a Cool 1/2 Million a Year to Run CIRM
Robert Klein, whose money and political muscle was behind Proposition 71 that convinced Californians to foolishly borrow billions to pay for human cloning and embryonic stem cell research, is only in it for the cures, or so he has always said. Well, that assurance no longer applies. Not content to spend hundreds of millions of borrowed money of California citizens money this year to fund some of the world's most expensive buildings, he now wants to pocket a cool $500,000 in salary per year--at a time when California is spurting red ink from the arteries. The hapless governator is not happy. From California Stem Cell Report:
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has expressed "deep concern" about a proposal to pay the chairman of the California stem cell agency as much as half-a-million dollars a year. The letter from the governor to the CIRM board of directors comes as the state faces a $28 billion budget crisis and is cutting aid to the poor and elderly. Legislation was also introduced this week to freeze salaries of state employees who make more than $150,000 a year.Klein has been a disaster, with conflicts of interest rife in the CIRM, a Little Hoover Commission investigation ongoing of the CIRM, management difficulties, etc. Moreover, this smacks of the sense of entitlement and hubris among the big shots and well connected that is utterly ruining the country.
Well, the CIRM shouldn't be Klein's personal fiefdom. Rather than pay Klein a half million, let's show him the door instead.
Labels: CIRM. Hubris.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 4:57 PM
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4 Comments:
That's what all the death culture proponents seem to want -- a nice living for themselves, i.e. money, the authority accorded those with "credentials," etc.
In other words, security and power, as defense against the society that needs to defend itself against them. And they know it, hence their rhetoric, intended to disguise themselves, about wanting to "help." Ever notice how people who "just want to help" manage to mess up the affairs of those who didn't ask for and don't want their help, and how they can't stick their noses out of what is none of their business? They intrude in order to prevent those upon whom they intrude from being able to look into them, and perceive what they are up to. And this society lets them, because it's full of people who don't want to be self-reliant.
"Refusing to pay me half a mill a year will stand in the way of finding a cure for Parkinson's, juvenile diabetes, cancer..."
bmmg39: Good one!
And that's why it takes as long as it does to find these "miracle cures." Once found, the money to "find" the dries up. Meanwhile animals suffer gratuitously by the millions in laboratories. If they don't have the animals for the "studies," they can't get the grants, etc. Yet another reason preventing them from being able to get their hands on the animals would help to straighten things out. When they are screaming that they need to use the animals "to help mankind," they are not saying that they need them for the sake of their careers, livelihoods, etc. But they do. With that not addressed, we end up with this guy and others like him demanding half a mil a year and, in effect, as bmmg pointed out, blackmailing in order to get it, and the more "controversial" the research, the more "necessary" it gets claimed to be in order to get that money, and the more expensive it is (in every way). Things are going to be an even worse nightmare without Bush in the White House.
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