And on a similar note two months ago our city's school superintendent tells the school board that after less than one year on the job she is going to resign. She tells them that she can not work with a new school board member who was just elected. It turns out that this superintendent had fired this newly elected official a few years back when they both held lower positions within the school district and there was too much animosity between them still. Our paper learned that our superintendent, along with other high-ranking officials, have a clause in their contract whereby they can simply walk away from the job, get a handful of cash and keep their pension--they call it "the golden handshake". Anyways our school board, in all of their wisdom, instead of telling her not to let the door hit her in the ass on the way out chose instead to give her $325,000 dollars of tax payer's money. The only stipulation is that for one year she has to accept the title of "consultant" and while resting comfortably at home she simply has to answer the phone and give any advice should a school official wish to contact her and ask for some. Of course she gets full medical benefits while staying at home for the year.
And last week the paper tells me that the city council says that due to budget deficits it will have to eliminate one firefighter position on each fire truck.
And today the paper tells me that the city council, in all of their wisdom, has decided not to eliminate the 11 firefighter positions but instead they are going to raise various city taxes.
The point of this post is I have to ask why do we all spend so much time sorting pennies when the real goldmine can be found simply by landing employment with our various gov't agencies?
Enough is enough--I'm joining the TEA PARTY...and finally leaving California after 54 years!!
