NO CHARTER REFORM UNLESS WE HAVE THOSE IMPACTED BY THE REFORM SIT ON THE ROUND TABLE. San Bernardino can work its way back toward a healthy local economy with good jobs, quality public services and a robust tax base. However, making that happen depends on honoring the promises to the workers and ensuring that Wall Street and big corporations pay their fair share. The dynamics at play in San Bernardino are the same dynamics creating the growing wealth gap that keeps our economy from making a sustainable economic recovery. While Wall Street and corporations profit handsomely from a citys decline, the public worker (the citys middle class) has sacrificed time and again. I find it immoral to force our public-safety personnel and public employees to give up even more by the name of, fiscal sanity. These cuts will only burden the effort to solve the citys long-term challenges. The outcome is to depress economic activity, pushing more residents into poverty, and making it difficult to retain quality workers. In a nutshell, fiscal sanity must address the cash flow shortfall by fixing the problems that caused it in the first place. Banks must be told that they have profited enough from interest rate swaps that helped create this mess. The state needs to collaborate by increasing available revenues. Corporate tax loopholes must be closed, and ineffective subsidies ended. The pensions and salaries of public safety and public employees have nothing to do with the economic state of a municipality. The reader would do well to look into the dynamics of fiscal sanity to find out that attacking pensions and salaries are instrumental to create more wealth for the very rich. The distraction is the tickling feather. And looking at it closely salaries and pensions are mediocre compared to bank and/or corporate profit. The leaders of banks and corporations are powerful not police and fire unions.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 21:15:19 +0000
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