They just didn't know….
When policymakers push for lawsuit against the local government on ill-founded salary increase some three years ago, it goes to illustrate that this bunch isn’t only oblivious to the deepening economic crisis, but are willing to brave stupidity on a matter it can’t possibly collect.
If the contention is the unequal application of law under the previous administration, then it has obviously chosen to bark up the wrong tree in hopes of sending the local government into total financial meltdown. Now, if this royally misguided bunch still feels strongly about it, then it settle down and identify the source(s) of funds to fulfill such statutory requirement. It’s the usual case of cart before the bull. Happy Riding!
I was hoping the factory of unfunded liability has ceased operations. But the good old boys are stlll at it every election year. The last one was a proposed salary raise for retirees who worked at a certain period. This politically correct measure is great public relations pitch for retirees. Everyday, prospective recipients call up appropriate government offices to find out if they’re in or out.
Even as a retiree, I refused to fight my case on th 30 percent bonus because such perk is something we can’t afford with taxpayers’ money a good portion of which come from the private sector. I mean, why are we viciously punishing private sector employees as to constantly grant more perks to non-productive government employees at their expense? Isn’t it true that public policy is supposed to benefit the greater majority?
Are the assaults you have imposed on private sector employers and employees your ditch shallowness in the redefinition of fairness?
No wonder there’s this ocean of difference in perks between public and private sector employees. Is this your ill-conceived scheme of encouraging locals to move to the private sector?–irresponsible disposition of hard-to-come-by nickels and dimes paid for by private sector employees? Nice try!
Training for retirees and displaced
Since the inception of the reitrement program in the late seventies, there has never been a retraining program so designed to move retirees to the private sector. They’re basically left to fend for themselves.
This grand neglect has contributed to the constant and tired old chorus of too many non-resident workers in private sector jobs. Obviously, we’re long on criticism of our own inadequacies, but awfully short when tasked to retrain retirees for jobs outside government.
Most have gone out on their own to learn a new trade without assistance. It goes to show their enthusiasm to stay productive after serving 20 years in government.
Then there’s the high school kids whom we have dismissed as “failures”. This stigma is very embarrassing to the extent that a kid, teeming with potential, related: “I’m a total failure…a good for nothing…there’s no future for me”.
But he came from a very good family and must have gone astray as he struggled to find his place in the dizzying world of adolescency, fueled by the lack of firm discipline at home.
I honestly was speechless as the kid, a strong “B” student lamented how he was left to slide into the home plate of “failure”. And there are more than just one of his type whom we have sent home with such humiliating stigma.
I honestly don’t know how to deal with him and all he needed was some attention at his most vulnerable juncture in adolescency to sustain better than average academic grades. I’ve asked him to take-up adult basic education at NMC. He did. He now smiles with a sense of hope that his future isn’t a failure altogether.
