City council votes to slash officials' pay 90%

[Crumbled_pavement]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...salaries_N.htm

[Papasito]

The council voted unanimously to set every member's salary at what Councilman Lorenzo Velez is paid — about $8,000 a year. The other four council members have been making about $100,000 a year for their part-time service on the City Council of this largely working-class city of about 40,000 residents southeast of Los Angeles. About 17% of Bell's residents live in poverty.

[MCP-001]

Never happen here.

[Crumbled_pavement]

Yea, but did you guys see the outrageous salaries these guys were getting to run a town that has 40K residents?

[MCP-001]

Those weren't salaries, that was outright graft!

What I find interesting is that when CEO's of large corporations tank their companies and get paid large salaries, people complain [[very vocally and publically).

When elected officials and their appointees tank the governments they are responsible for running and get paid large salaries, people shrug.

I can't even count on one hand how many politicians have voluntarily cut back their own salaries to address the damage they have caused [[Gov. Granholm's charity donations DO NOT count).

[barnesfoto]

Imagine a smaller working class suburb like River Rouge or Melvindale with officials making these kind of salaries. That's what Bell is like.

This kind of muckracking journalism comes courtesy of some very dedicated journalists at the Los Angeles Times, [[AKA "The LIberal Media") and is becoming increasingly unusual as daily and weekly newspapers whither.

How would TV journalists ever come up with any material if it were not for the print media?


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/bell/

[Johnlodge]

What I find interesting is that when CEO's of large corporations tank their companies and get paid large salaries, people complain [[very vocally and publically).

When elected officials and their appointees tank the governments they are responsible for running and get paid large salaries, people shrug.

Yeah, but the results are usually the same. Nothing happens.