Posted on 08/29/2004 9:08:41 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Just as there are times that restore one's faith in human nature, there also are times that make one so sickened that it's hard to know what to say. Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting fits into the latter category - an event so revolting I only wish that all Orange County voters had been there to see and hear it with me.
I don't wish ill stomachs on my readers. But had every Orange Countian attended the meeting, everyone would know exactly how the county is run. They would have watched three supervisors - Chairman Tom Wilson, Bill Campbell and Jim Silva - acting as union shills, granting dramatic pension increases to government employees, in total disregard of sound actuarial advice.
And in direct disregard to the interests of taxpayers, who will have to work longer and harder to pay for the tax increases that will be necessary once the union's phantasmagorical financial assumptions are overcome by reality.
Somehow, I doubt Campbell, who once owned a franchise of fast-food restaurants, was as generous with his company's pension dollars as he is with the taxpayers' dollars entrusted to his care.
The meeting was a farce.
Campbell's faux-prosecutor shtick played well with the assembled union crowd, but reminded me of a kid play-acting. Campbell was carrying water for this pension spike, but needed to burnish his Republican credentials.
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You don't get people's votes by doing what they don't want.
Vote buying takes money, and some other person's money is less painful to expend.
Always has worked this way.
Interesting!
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