Posted on 08/11/2010 3:00:07 PM PDT by Syncro
LET'S PLAY 'SPOT THE DEMOCRAT'!
August 11, 2010
In the greatest party-affiliation cover-up since the media tried to portray Gary Condit as a Republican, the media are refusing to mention the party affiliation of the thieving government officials in Bell, Calif.
There have been hundreds of news stories about Bell city officials' jaw-dropping salaries. In this poor city on the outskirts of Los Angeles, where the per capita annual income is $24,800 a year, the city manager, Robert Rizzo, had a salary of $787,637.
That's about twice what the president of the United States makes. (To be fair, Rizzo was doing a better job.)
Rizzo was the highest-paid government employee in the entire country, not counting Maxine Waters' husband -- pending further revelations. With benefits, his total annual compensation, according to the Los Angeles Times, came to $1.5 million a year.
Alerted to the Bell situation, the White House quickly added the Bell city manager to the list of jobs saved by its stimulus plan.
Not only that, but Rizzo was entitled to 28 weeks off a year for vacation and sick leave. To put that in perspective, that's almost as much vacation time as public school teachers get!
Reached in Spain, even Michelle Obama was outraged.
Rizzo responded to the anger over his preposterous salary by saying: "If that's a number people choke on, maybe I'm in the wrong business. I could go into private business and make that money."
(If he wants to grab one of those private-sector jobs that pays $1.5 million for 24 weeks of work, may I suggest the entertainment industry?)
Good luck to him. After leaving Bell, Rizzo will be lucky to land a job at Taco Bell. Before being anointed the King Tut of Bell, Rizzo was the city manager of Hesperia, Calif., where he was overpaid only to the tune of $78,000 a year.
The police chief, Randy Adams, was making $457,000 -- $770,046 including benefits. The assistant city manager, Angela Spaccia, had a $376,288 salary, with a total compensation package of $845,960. Being just an assistant city manager, Angela had to pay for her own yacht.
After the Los Angeles Times reported the stratospheric government salaries in little Bell, and the people of the town revolted, the millionaire government employees all resigned.
That'll show 'em! Oops, except upon their resignations, they qualified for lifetime pensions worth, by some estimates, more than $50 million.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
“Alerted to the Bell situation, the White House quickly added the Bell city manager to the list of jobs saved by its stimulus plan.”
Ohhhhhh doctor.....another classic line...out of so many...what a gem she is.
Vallejo redux.
If this was not so serious it would be funny.
Heck, who am I kidding, it’s STILL hilarious. Even if I lived in Bell and directly affected by this I would find it hilarious in a One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest way.
Elected Democratic officials bestow ludicrous salaries and benefits packages on government employees, and, in return, public employee unions make sure the Democrats keep getting re-elected.Didn't the congress cut their vacation short to give something like 40 BILLION to school teachers and Union thugs?
Word has it that the unions are using a large part of that windfall to buy votes for the dems.
The vicious circle of voter fraud is alive and well.
Obama/Congress give money to their allies, they vote them back in and around and around we go.
I almost got a post off to you before you chimed in...It ain't easy!
You've got IBTP workin'.
Check out all the LOS ANGELES salaries posted on FReeper dragnet2'S recent thread:
Controller Wendy Greuel posts salaries of all LA city workers (You've got to see this:-- snip --
You won't believe some of these government salaries.
GENERAL MGR NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT $154,512.00
ASST GM DEPT OF AGING $148,749.12
FIRE DEPUTY CHIEF $241,310.16
REAL ESTATE OFFICER II $98,845.92
PORT POLICE OFFICER II $94,279.73
MOTOR SWEEPER OPERATOR $66,669.84
CLERK TYPIST $49,160.66
The list goes on and on and one.....
Those were the words Fat Matt Amerillo used to. He hasn't work since he got fired from the Big Pig.
:o)
Yep. No doubt about it. Pitchfork, torch, tar and feather futures are going up.
If this becomes “viral” information, things could spiral down pretty fast. My recommendation to our leadership is to keep extending that unemployment to keep the peasants “passive”! /s
Robert Rizzo, had a salary of $787,637. That's about twice what the president of the United States makes. (To be fair, Rizzo was doing a better job.)
Personally, I think she was on a comedy role with this particular article. But let’s be honest. This stuff writes itself. :)
Great line.
“Those were the words Fat Matt Amerillo used to. He hasn’t work since he got fired from the Big Pig.”
He still feeds at the trough, though, surely?
More evidence that entrenching an exploitative ruling class is all that socialism is about.
More evidence that entrenching an exploitative ruling class is all that socialism is about.
Coulter never fails to deliver!
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