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Is anyone here getting any help from NAS ?

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Does anyone here get actually get any help from NAS ?

My experience is you ask for help and they send you a bucketload of PDF'S of other organisations. Am I wrong to have expected more ?

The chief executive gets paid 140 grand a year, is it right that someone can live in luxury on that kind of salary from charitable donations ? Not even counting the other 20 people on stupid salaries comes to over 2 million quid ...no doubt plus expenses.

I thought charities existed to help others but obviously they are more interested in helping themselves.

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  • The Imp of the Perverse

    All of what you say is fine zone tripper but £140,000 compensation IS an issue at this time. What the last few years has shown is that there is no direct correlation between business acumen and competence. The NAS chief executive isn't getting all that money because of who he is but what the NAS charity is offering. The proof will be in the result...not at the end of his tenure but when his actions are no longer effective in any way. 

    The NAS CEO does not have to accept that money. He could make a gesture and our country could begin, in the smallest of ways, to get to grips with over-extended salaries. The old argument used to be that 'luxury' amounts of wealth don't matter because these people will use that money to employ lots of people. You might call that Downton Abbey economics. I, personally, disagree with that idea. All it does is produce a servant class. Plus accountants. Plus lawyers. Plus interior decorators. And so on. Nothing happens in isolation.

    I was recently reading that in Denmark, being a lawyer is not that well-paid and that huge discrepancies in wealth are nowhere near what we have. So if you are OK with a top tier of people commanding resources that no ordinary person could possibily have use for then that is your choice. It is precisely this that I think has gone wrong with this county. And it's getting worse.

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  • The Imp of the Perverse

    All of what you say is fine zone tripper but £140,000 compensation IS an issue at this time. What the last few years has shown is that there is no direct correlation between business acumen and competence. The NAS chief executive isn't getting all that money because of who he is but what the NAS charity is offering. The proof will be in the result...not at the end of his tenure but when his actions are no longer effective in any way. 

    The NAS CEO does not have to accept that money. He could make a gesture and our country could begin, in the smallest of ways, to get to grips with over-extended salaries. The old argument used to be that 'luxury' amounts of wealth don't matter because these people will use that money to employ lots of people. You might call that Downton Abbey economics. I, personally, disagree with that idea. All it does is produce a servant class. Plus accountants. Plus lawyers. Plus interior decorators. And so on. Nothing happens in isolation.

    I was recently reading that in Denmark, being a lawyer is not that well-paid and that huge discrepancies in wealth are nowhere near what we have. So if you are OK with a top tier of people commanding resources that no ordinary person could possibily have use for then that is your choice. It is precisely this that I think has gone wrong with this county. And it's getting worse.

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