{"id":412667,"date":"2010-03-09T23:55:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T04:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"tag:ronkayela.com,2010:\/\/1.983"},"modified":"2010-03-10T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:21:56","slug":"lets-lay-off-the-mayor-council-who-needs-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/412667","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Lay Off the Mayor & Council — Who Needs Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine the scenes at the Pacific Dining Car and in the back rooms of City Hall in the next few days as the nation’s highest paid municipal officials and their armies of staffers, each with their taxpayer-supplied Priuses, back slap and praise each other for all their hard work above and beyond the call of duty<\/leo_highlight>.<\/p>\n

Job well done.<\/p>\n

High fives all around. They have been in combat these last few weeks. They have seen the enemy and it is us, the taxpayers, the businesses, the people. And they have survived through daily sessions, and the pitfalls of posturing and hypocrisy as if they had braved incoming shells and snipers and improvised explosive devices.<\/p>\n

No, it hasn’t been easy but they have gotten through and have lived to destroy again another day. <\/p>\n

You can understand their need to fly off to the nation’s capital to wine and dine with the men and women at the pinnacle of the political machinery of public deceit, or to spend a few days on the beaches of Maui far from the maddening crowd of ordinary folks begging for crumbs from their table of power.<\/p>\n

Such is the burdens of self-importance in an age of transformation when the rules no longer apply, when the center of inertia no longer holds, when the abnormal has become the norm.<\/p>\n

These are the people we have anointed to lead us through these times of troubles and they are delighted to have danced and preened, to have shown their heartfelt concerns, to have made it through pretending to have faced the demon of their massive deficits without having done anything at all. <\/p>\n

And they are still in place in their high stations to enjoy the privileges and perks they have come to expect as a birthright for their virtue and goodness.<\/p>\n

Oh, what a happy day it is, what a well deserved vacation they have coming next week for their public service. <\/p>\n

They have confused and fragmented the populace and shown their superiority and put the  grumbling rabble in their place, worried about themselves and their parks and libraries and their petty concerns as they try to preserve the quality of their little lives.<\/p>\n

It was brilliant and worth all the sweat of donning their fancy clothes every day though they will have to call in chits from their wealthy friends to cover the inflated dry cleaning bills they have from having to show up at work every day.<\/p>\n

Of course, they never all show up at the same time.<\/p>\n

That’s one of the wonders of the Council. They arrange their schedules so that they have just enough members — a dirty dozen — to enact everything they and their puppet masters want on unanimous votes on first reading.
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