A Letter To The Editor: Worcester County Budget Citizen Comment

Dear County Commissioners:

Once again, the most highly-educated among us have come to demand pay increases they are “due” https://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/64036/329756/pub/

Their willingness to suspend disbelief of the economic environment which exists is UNSUSTAINABLE. When will the rank and file on the education front realize there is no bottomless pot of money to fund millions of dollars in new approaches to “education” and endless increases in their pay?

The unions and their ruling class elite “public servants” have arranged a stranglehold on taxpayers that includes “maintenance of effort” which results in a cycle of never-ending increases and has no recognition of economic reality. Are you aware that “American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten, who was paid $543,150 last year, defended her compensation by claiming her pay is $360,000 and other reported expenses simply prove the union’s “transparency.”’ http://mediatrackers.org/national/2014/04/29/teachers-union-boss-randi-weingarten-salary-360000.

Worcester County taxpayers currently fund 90% of health premiums for these employees. How many of these individuals are responsible for supporting the “Affordable Care Act”? What is the economic impact on the lowly taxpayers of the increasing premiums of this prime benefit?

It continues to amaze me that politicians continue to kick the bankruptcy can down the road for their children, grandchildren, et seq., to bear the consequences of their spending sprees of the present to curry favor with public employees while “borrowing” their pension funds to spend on projects left unfunded by their raids on various “trust funds”.

Your responsibility is to ALL taxpayers who fund the decisions you make. Please prayerfully consider your choices and ask God to direct your actions,

Respectfully,

Gwen L. Cordner