WH spokesman Tony Snow said of the $60,000 raise given Paul Wolfowitz's girlfriend Shaha Riza at the World Bank - "it's not a firing offense." Not a firing offense? In the real world your average worker can get fired for being off 9 bucks total over the course of 3 months in counting your drawer.
Every day the cash in each cashier's register would be counted and compared against a master computer printout. The first time a cashier's register count differed from the printout by $3.00 or more, the cashier would receive a written warning. If another discrepancy occurred within 30 days of receipt of the written warning, the cashier would be suspended. A third discrepancy occurring within 60 days from the suspension would result in termination.
This is verbatim from Plaintiff vs. Menards, Inc. - a wrongful termination case where the ruling was in favor of Menards. A minimum wage worker can get fired for a nine dollar discrepancy over the course of 3 months. Why should Wolfowitz be excused for a $60,000 conflict of interest?