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When is the public going to get angry enough to stand up? This week, Clay Phillips, the City Manager for Escondido, quietly gave big pay raises to nine top managers, after negotiating cuts and concessions for most city workers (Large raises for top employees draw criticism, March 20, NCT).
Sheryl Bennett, the city personnel chief, will now receive an increase from $125,000 to $155,487 per year. This comes on the heels of the abolishment of the redevelopment agency that left many low-income recipients, including senior citizens and the disabled, without their $100 per month rental subsidies. At the time, council members claimed that the city was broke, but there always seems to be enough money to go to the guys on top.
In the NCT article, councilwoman Olga Diaz said, "I didn't know we had thousands of dollars to spend." She added that the raises cost more money than the $192,000 per year it would have taken to run the East Valley library which closed last June due to lack of funds.
She isn't the only one who thought that government was broke. Jerry Brown implied that when he cut group homes for the disabled and adult day care for the elderly. He then signed the Dream Act which allowed $65,000,000 to go to illegal immigrants to pay for their college education. After all, the disabled and elderly rarely vote and Obama was slipping in the polls. Brown had to do something drastic, like give away America, in order to motivate the Latinos to vote for Democrats.
Yesterday, a broker on the news predicted that Obama's mortgage plan is going to be a disaster. As before, the banks will receive bailouts, and the homeowners will pay for a decade without reducing the principal on their homes.
Corruption in government is like a run-away train and unfortunately there is no one willing to stick his foot out to stop it.
When is the public going to get angry enough to stand up? This week, Clay Phillips, the City Manager for Escondido, quietly gave big pay raises to nine top managers, after negotiating cuts and concessions for most city workers (Large raises for top employees draw criticism, March 20, NCT).
Sheryl Bennett, the city personnel chief, will now receive an increase from $125,000 to $155,487 per year. This comes on the heels of the abolishment of the redevelopment agency that left many low-income recipients, including senior citizens and the disabled, without their $100 per month rental subsidies. At the time, council members claimed that the city was broke, but there always seems to be enough money to go to the guys on top.
In the NCT article, councilwoman Olga Diaz said, "I didn't know we had thousands of dollars to spend." She added that the raises cost more money than the $192,000 per year it would have taken to run the East Valley library which closed last June due to lack of funds.
She isn't the only one who thought that government was broke. Jerry Brown implied that when he cut group homes for the disabled and adult day care for the elderly. He then signed the Dream Act which allowed $65,000,000 to go to illegal immigrants to pay for their college education. After all, the disabled and elderly rarely vote and Obama was slipping in the polls. Brown had to do something drastic, like give away America, in order to motivate the Latinos to vote for Democrats.
Yesterday, a broker on the news predicted that Obama's mortgage plan is going to be a disaster. As before, the banks will receive bailouts, and the homeowners will pay for a decade without reducing the principal on their homes.
Corruption in government is like a run-away train and unfortunately there is no one willing to stick his foot out to stop it.