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Grandpa often said that Jerry Brown was a crook, and he was right. Jerry Brown was responsible for ending redevelopment and thus causing about three-hundred low-income residents in Escondido to lose their rental subsidies. Luckily, the City of Escondido has agreed to reinstate them, but not out of kindness and concern. The powers-that-be feared anarchy when citizens discovered that nine top managers for the city have received pay raises as high as twenty-four percent. According to the North County Times, Sheryl Bennett (the chief personnel manager for God sakes!) now earns about $155,000 a year. Mayor Sam Abed justified the cost by saying that the city has to remain competitive. BS. For years, the police officers' union has pointed out their pay is the lowest around, and no one but they worry that their paychecks aren't competitive.
Today, I received a letter that my landlord, the city of Escondido, is going to ask the council for a rental increase of about $9 per space (mobile home park). You may not think that's much, but some of us are on Social Security and didn't get a cost-of-living increase for years while the City of Escondido went right on charging more. In 2009, Social Security checks were cut by $75 per month, as well as all Medi-Cal dental and vision benefits. This is not an entirely bad thing because Medi-Cal was paying so little, dentists couldn't afford to numb up the patients during procedures like adding a crown or filling a tooth. When the drilling started to hurt, dental assistants merely handed patients a rubber ball to squeeze. And, many of those crowns kept coming off because they were metal and not porcelain, so they had to be put on again and again.
Then Jerry Brown cut the group homes for the disabled and adult day care for the elderly. Couldn't pay for that, but he could afford to give $65 million to the kids of illegal immigrants so they could attend college. Why? 'Cause Obama was slipping in the polls. And I think Brown hoped to capture the Latino vote sans the Latino elderly and disabled. Activists couldn't even gather enough signatures to get the Dream Act repealed. Are you kidding me?
About two or three years ago, I met Police Chief Maher at a round table meeting at North County Times. I told him that Americans are going to get the country they deserve. He said he hears that a lot.
Unfortunately, by the time all the liberals figure it out, it will be too late to save ourselves. I, for one, will be speaking at the Escondido City Council Meeting of May 9 to protest the rental increase. The one percent can kiss my class!
Grandpa often said that Jerry Brown was a crook, and he was right. Jerry Brown was responsible for ending redevelopment and thus causing about three-hundred low-income residents in Escondido to lose their rental subsidies. Luckily, the City of Escondido has agreed to reinstate them, but not out of kindness and concern. The powers-that-be feared anarchy when citizens discovered that nine top managers for the city have received pay raises as high as twenty-four percent. According to the North County Times, Sheryl Bennett (the chief personnel manager for God sakes!) now earns about $155,000 a year. Mayor Sam Abed justified the cost by saying that the city has to remain competitive. BS. For years, the police officers' union has pointed out their pay is the lowest around, and no one but they worry that their paychecks aren't competitive.
Today, I received a letter that my landlord, the city of Escondido, is going to ask the council for a rental increase of about $9 per space (mobile home park). You may not think that's much, but some of us are on Social Security and didn't get a cost-of-living increase for years while the City of Escondido went right on charging more. In 2009, Social Security checks were cut by $75 per month, as well as all Medi-Cal dental and vision benefits. This is not an entirely bad thing because Medi-Cal was paying so little, dentists couldn't afford to numb up the patients during procedures like adding a crown or filling a tooth. When the drilling started to hurt, dental assistants merely handed patients a rubber ball to squeeze. And, many of those crowns kept coming off because they were metal and not porcelain, so they had to be put on again and again.
Then Jerry Brown cut the group homes for the disabled and adult day care for the elderly. Couldn't pay for that, but he could afford to give $65 million to the kids of illegal immigrants so they could attend college. Why? 'Cause Obama was slipping in the polls. And I think Brown hoped to capture the Latino vote sans the Latino elderly and disabled. Activists couldn't even gather enough signatures to get the Dream Act repealed. Are you kidding me?
About two or three years ago, I met Police Chief Maher at a round table meeting at North County Times. I told him that Americans are going to get the country they deserve. He said he hears that a lot.
Unfortunately, by the time all the liberals figure it out, it will be too late to save ourselves. I, for one, will be speaking at the Escondido City Council Meeting of May 9 to protest the rental increase. The one percent can kiss my class!