Imagine if the government paid you $73K a year to do
something you know how to do. Pretty
good deal right? Actually you would be
underpaid by PLCB standards. The 2 board
members make that every year (the Chairman makes even more) for meeting 21
times in total (2013) with no, I mean NONE at all*, experience in the liquor or
retail industry or any business the size of the PLCB and they meet for less
time then you spend in the shower every year. Pretty sweet gig and a prime
example of why the PLCB needs to be privatized. (* Board Member Bob Marcus did
sell cars but that really isn’t the same thing)
Imagine if the mayor of Pittsburgh decided to come in only
21 days a year for a couple of hours. A fair analogy since the Board and the Mayor both have almost
exactly the same amount of full time employees working for them. How much and
how well would things get done? One only
has to look at the ineptness of the PLCB to answer that question. The
difference being that the mayor pretty much only affects Pittsburgh while the
PLCB affects all 12 million citizens.
Let business people make business decisions, they at least
have experience and aren’t political hacks who need a job. Also, you can count on them to be on the job
most if not all days too working tirelessly to expand the business. See my post about “40 years of nothing”
to see how effective the board is on that business principle.
Privatization IS Modernization. Accept nothing less.
Privatization IS Modernization. Accept nothing less.
"Imagine if the mayor of Pittsburgh decided to come in only 21 days a year for a couple of hours."
ReplyDeleteI know what you're getting at, but if all politicians and bureaucrats rarely did anything, our lives would be so much better.
Just imagine how it could be if the pols actually knew something about what they legislated!
ReplyDeleteunrelated but thought you might be interested in this http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2014/01/why-houston-changing-its-alcohol-sales-law-help-food-deserts/8065/
ReplyDeleteInteresting. With luck we can get some package reform done too and not have to spend the next decade or two (or eight!) trying to fix the idiocy that the PLCB is sure to require.
ReplyDeleteThere are 21 board meeting a year. Are you going to have us believe that is their only responsibility?
ReplyDeleteYou tell us. They obviously have some off-the-books meetings they don't make public records of, considering how fast the work gets done at the public meetings; they have to respond to press questions about PLCB screwups and corruption; they appear on talk shows to explain why the PLCB doesn't totally suck... So, okay, maybe the equivalent of 30 full work days a year. Big deal. I'd take it, for the salary, and I'd do a better job than they do, I guarantee. In fact, I'd put up a bond to guarantee my better performance, or make some other public wager. It would be an easy win.
ReplyDeleteYou tell us. They obviously have some off-the-books meetings they don't make public records of, considering how fast the work gets done at the public meetings; they have to respond to press questions about PLCB screwups and corruption; they appear on talk shows to explain why the PLCB doesn't totally suck... So, okay, maybe the equivalent of 30 full work days a year. Big deal. I'd take it, for the salary, and I'd do a better job than they do, I guarantee. In fact, I'd put up a bond to guarantee my better performance, or make some other public wager. It would be an easy win.
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