Politician's Oath .. Spend loads of OPM!
That’s the same approach that the US congress has. They keep spending and plan on someone else cleaning up the mess. The problem is that the group that’s in office when they finally decide to balance the budget is going to get blamed for the hard times. They’ll never get reelected, even though they’re the ones who ended the problem, not the ones who caused it.
I just turned down a tasty job offer (nope, I’m fully employed now, but this was technically tempting) in San Diego.
I would not consider it. Even with a substantial raise in salary, I would be left with little, if any, extra funds for myself. So, more work and perhaps more fun - in order to feed the illegals and unions?
No thanks.
You’ll notice they first attack Prop. 13. They’ve been after this one for years. And they will continue to until they kill it.
Whenever a politician wants to feel like Santa Claus, I end up feeling like an elf chained to my toymaker’s workbench for another eighteen hour day.
I’m afraid “spread loot like Santa” is giving them far too much credit:
The real St. Nicholas gave charity to the poor. The fantastical Santa makes a distinction between the “naughty” who don’t get any, and the “nice” who do. Given the way politics goes I suspect that a lot of well-off folks who under any reasonable standard of morals have been naughty managed to get a great deal of “loot”.
bump $$$
What a bizzare inconsistent non-sensical statement!
Living in the area influenced by the Sac Bee, I know for a fact that there isn't a tax, a bureaucratic salary increase, spending of any kind, that the BEE didn't support.
Chief among them all are ever increasing salary, benefit and pension increases for public sector employees, all of them, city, county or state.
Welcome to Wonderland.