municipalities in all of los angeles and they discovered that their chief administrative officer robert ritz so earns seven hundred eighty seven thousand six hundred thirty seven dollars per year with an annual twelve percent raise this is a thirty eight thousand people in this town the police chief makes four hundred fifty seven thousand and council members earn almost one hundred thousand a year for part time work now to put this into the context of a story we only covered recently in the kaiser report that the queen of england cost the taxpayer less than one dollar per person in britain the chief administrative officer robert ritz so in this tiny town of bell california costs each taxpayer each citizen each child each baby cost twenty one dollars yeah that just shows that the well for them kim gap is widening to the. absurd levels and depending on how you have leverage you see to be in america if you have a good idea you have leverage as a meritocracy but now if you've got inside connections and you're a crony capitalist and you've got a gun you can get it well but it's also our theme of