Cookson American pension very good for Carcieri
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By Katherine Gregg PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri last year banked a pension worth between "$200,000 and $500,000" from his former employer: Cookson America. When it came to investing his own money, General Treasurer Frank Caprio's picks last year included IBM, General Electric, Pfizer, Boeing Corp., Microsoft and the Altria Corp., which bills itself as the nation's "premier tobacco company." Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts harvested between "$100,000 and $200,000" last year from Union Land & Management, a family-owned real estate land-management company in Herndon, Va., and somewhere between $91,000 and $210,000 from the sale of stock in Nordstrom; ConocoPhillips, the nation's third largest oil company; First Marblehead, a private-school student loan company; Bank of America; Canadian National and the Harris Corp. Friday was the deadline for about 4,000 state and local officials to file their annual conflict-of-interest disclosure statements with the state Ethics Commission. The five top state officials -- who include the governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, attorney general and secretary of state -- were required to go a step further, by reporting their sources of income and how much in broad terms -- such as "$10,001 to $25,000" or "$25,001 to $50,000" -- they received from each of those sources in 2008. Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch and Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis had little to report beyond their state paychecks. For the record, Caprio, Lynch and Mollis voluntarily disclosed all or portions of their tax returns earlier this month; Carcieri and Roberts did not, so their Ethics Commission filings provide a once-a-year glimpse at the sources of their substantial incomes. 
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Typical of the ProJo to print a article about the pensions of the states top officials. I love the last sentence that states "glimpse at the sources of their substantial incomes." Can the Journal make any more of an effort to make people look bad who have a pension they they have legally earned from the private sector or from smart investments. No mention though of how much money these people donate to worthy causes. Let's just try and portray them as poorly as possible. I also notice there is no author to the story. Note to Editor, you wonder why your going out of business. Need to go, I need to read my fresh issue of the WSJ.
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Typical of the ProJo to print a article about the pensions of the states top officials. I love the last sentence that states "glimpse at the sources of their substantial incomes." Can the Journal make any more of an effort to make people look bad who have a pension they they have legally earned from the private sector or from smart investments. No mention though of how much money these people donate to worthy causes. Let's just try and portray them as poorly as possible. I also notice there is no author to the story. Note to Editor, you wonder why your going out of business. Need to go, I need to read my fresh issue of the WSJ.
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Typical of the ProJo to print a article about the pensions of the states top officials. I love the last sentence that states "glimpse at the sources of their substantial incomes." Can the Journal make any more of an effort to make people look bad who have a pension they they have legally earned from the private sector or from smart investments. No mention though of how much money these people donate to worthy causes. Let's just try and portray them as poorly as possible. Note to Editor, you wonder why your going out of business. Need to go, I need to read my fresh issue of the WSJ.
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Your fish wrapper mentality is accurate in that it reflects the backward thinking of your few remaining readers of the physical print.
These people earned a pension in the private sector with hard work and critical thinking. They created value and added wealth which caused jobs to be realizable and a profit to be made and taxes to be paid. They did not sit home on their back side waiting for someone to support them. Yes, the pseudo socialist mentality of the people republic of RI has now taken hold in Washington, DC. The Marxist Fascist National Socialist Federal Government lead by aka POTUS the usurper. They will plunder any and all wealth sucking the remaining life out of our economy. I ask what will you do when the mail man stops coming!
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