Looking for Common Sense

This young gal may be looking for her contact lens, or she may learning to walk, or she may be looking for common sense in our

up-side-down world.

I came upon three unrelated articles last week, but upon closer inspection, they are related. The first story is about the Oakland Ca. police chief having to lay off staff due to budget cuts. He announced that because of the layoffs, 911 calls would no longer be responding to calls relating to theft, burglaries, passing fake cheques, embezzlement, extortion, vandalism, and the list goes on. This is another step toward third world status for Oakland.

The second article is in regards to the top paid state employees in California. The chief psychiatrist for the overcrowded prison system was paid $838,706.00 in 2010. The 10 highest paid employees were each earning more than $500 K. Seven of these ten were either doctors or dentists in the prison system.

Jumping over to Washington, we see that President Obama enacted a wage freeze for federal employees as one of his first acts as President. However, the rule did not take force until January of 2011. Before the deadline, his head of economic policy received an 82% pay raise, and his director of African American media received an 86% pay raise. That's the spirit!

We can see that in light of the fact that increases of the common working man's wages are near zero, and pay raises in private sector business and industry are barely keeping up with infaltion, there is a disconnect. 

The 'trough' is full of borrowed money and more and more fat pigs are feeding out of it. When this ends, there may be light at the end of the economic tunnel in both our countries. 

As an edit to this post, I just read that illegal Mexican immigration is falling off dramatically. In fact, the flow is now reversing. Mexicans are now sneaking back across the border, to their homeland, in search of opportunity and jobs. Wow! That speaks volumes. They may be the only people in America who are actually working and now they are leaving. Maybe, soon, prison psychiatrists will be mowing lawns and trimming hedges. If so, they will finally be earning what they are worth.