Is anyone here getting any help from NAS ?

Thank you zonetripper for toning down your comments. I never said that I was left-wing. You don't need to be left-wing these days to criticise what's going on. Cecil Parkinson, on the Daily Politics last year, asked why do the capitalists want to destroy capitalism? All of this has nothing to do with working hard. Now speaking personally...I fail to see why countries so rich in ideas, inventions,  and tech have not been able to figure out a way to equalise the wealth of society. There is no need for people to be hungry, lack a home, or get an education in such a wealthy world. When people can command resources that they can never hope to spend something is really wrong. A big salary means you can get people to work for your benefit (chauffeur, pilot, dresser, clothes buyer, personal trainer etc.) A calculation was performed recently to show that the Living Wage would dent a major supermarket's bottom line scarcely at all. There is no relation between work and reward any more. It's a comlete non-sequiter to say anyone 'earns' these big salaries. How would you measure that exactly? 

As for the top post of the NAS (nothing to do with the present incumbent). By relative salaries the NAS is not going to attract a great business brain with £140,000. They are going to attract an accountant who knows how to keep costs down. Many in the City (banking, trading, insurance) would look down on that sum of money and many in big business would think running a charity beneath their expectations.

Finally I am clamming up now. I have to restrain myself from getting into these long-running discussions that in the end don't really go anywhere or change anything.

Thank you zonetripper for toning down your comments. I never said that I was left-wing. You don't need to be left-wing these days to criticise what's going on. Cecil Parkinson, on the Daily Politics last year, asked why do the capitalists want to destroy capitalism? All of this has nothing to do with working hard. Now speaking personally...I fail to see why countries so rich in ideas, inventions,  and tech have not been able to figure out a way to equalise the wealth of society. There is no need for people to be hungry, lack a home, or get an education in such a wealthy world. When people can command resources that they can never hope to spend something is really wrong. A big salary means you can get people to work for your benefit (chauffeur, pilot, dresser, clothes buyer, personal trainer etc.) A calculation was performed recently to show that the Living Wage would dent a major supermarket's bottom line scarcely at all. There is no relation between work and reward any more. It's a comlete non-sequiter to say anyone 'earns' these big salaries. How would you measure that exactly? 

As for the top post of the NAS (nothing to do with the present incumbent). By relative salaries the NAS is not going to attract a great business brain with £140,000. They are going to attract an accountant who knows how to keep costs down. Many in the City (banking, trading, insurance) would look down on that sum of money and many in big business would think running a charity beneath their expectations.

Finally I am clamming up now. I have to restrain myself from getting into these long-running discussions that in the end don't really go anywhere or change anything.