Difference/ diversity of background is what makes people think outside of the box. When all are complacent, all anyone wants is more money, benefits and less work. In Vienna, the work gets done, but I suspect not all are carrying their loads? Everyone got the same 5% raise in one form or another this year. One even got an extra $2K for helping to insure the people in the City or who came here to shop in the next five years would leave an extra $8 Million in Sales Tax. These Employees have gotten $7- 8K in raises and Benefit increases over the past 30 months. And yet one of them is still complaining they are not getting enough !!!!! How many of you got those kind of increases? How many of you pay NOTHING for your Health Insurance or at the most $100/ month in premiums? How many of you are getting a 9% contribution to your work pension each year? I commented that as of 1 July this year when the new Fiscal Year starts by and large the City staff would be overpaid. As the City Council meeting was ending one of four department heads sitting behind said in a stage whisper " let him see what kind of response he gets after 1 July if he calls in". My wife says that was a threat but I know that the people here are not much to deal with if one has faced down 40- 50 squatters trying to break into your compound in the Philippines so one can be dealt with. And I was so sick I could hardly walk and only regret was I could not wrestle the shotgun from the guard to shoot some of the garbage. When one gets to 70, death is not something to fear. it is coming; maybe sooner than later but I have never been given a guarantee of how many years?
Getting back to Corruption, the next level is Civil like in misdemeanors/ minor felonies. And lastly we have outright Criminal with major misdemeanors/ felonies. But in West Virginia it is more the policy to NOT expose a Government employee if it would humiliate/ shame the person. it is okay that they are stealing the Taxpayers, Residents, Voters blind with their antics; but boy oh boy don't let it be known. I will write more later on the Corruption as I earlier stated in Vienna. In the mean time read what I write and be assured of one thing: I WILL ANYTIME TAKE A POLYGRAPH !!!!. But NOT administered by a City, County or State entity here. It would need be FBI, CIA, U.S. Marshall Service and even Homeland Security. I have nothing to hide and only the good people of Vienna to answer too.