rudd gives mates a pay rise, page-2

One of the critical issues focussed upon in the global crisis is that greedy highly paid people did all they could to get even more and in the process put pressure on many companies' balance sheets when the buoyancy of their operations began to slip.
Clearly nothing has been learned by our top man/team.

If you are in a wages job odds are that you are under paid so without dropping your standards below those of our leaders ,it should be in order to ask for more money as they clearly think it's OK.