Cake-Eating and Arrogance
If the populace is listening closely, the message emanating from all elected officials, at every level of government, is “Let them eat cake.”
The latest in official arrogance is the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, who, despite the county’s precarious financial state, try to justify retaining their perks.
Who in the private sector receives seven extra weeks of pay per year? Is this another way of raising their salary, without inciting the public, as they did a few years ago? There is something less than democratic about elected officials being able to set their own salaries.
VIRGINIA CARPENTER
Oxnard
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