{"id":7641,"date":"2010-01-05T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2010-01-03T13:33:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T18:33:34","slug":"around-the-mob-boots-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7641","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Boots On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boots On,<\/a><\/em> by one “John Galt”, has been around for a while.\u00a0 It’s not the highest-profile MOB blog, but it’s mighty good – hard-right, unapologetic, consisten and articulate.<\/p>\n

Galt attended a Ramsey County “Truth In Taxation” meeting a few weeks back.\u00a0 And he didn’t like what he saw<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Last but not least, don’t forget the 25% pay raise the County Commissioners voted themselves about 18 months ago. I just checked–the pay for the regular comm’rs is $82,400, and the chair takes home just shy of $85k. Someone who recently ran for comm’r told me this is supposed to be a part-time job. I’m betting when you have to dole out money to golf-course developers, developmentally-disabled helpers, oversee library additions, consider the needs of “corrections nurseries,” on top of your compost and mulch production and whatnot, it’s more than a part-time job.<\/p>\n

But this is precisely the point. They’ve MADE it a big job. They’ve usurped authority and responsibility that properly belongs to families and churches and universities and non-sectarian NGOs and on and on, and then they want to don a halo and call themselves brilliant for a property tax levy that will continue to increase 2.7% per year for the next two years, while unemployment is pushing 10% and landlords can’t raise rents.<\/p>\n

AND they want to whine. When an elderly lady got up to complain about the sky-high salaries the comm’rs pay themselves while failing to get the hedgerows cut back along the road, I happened to be in the front row and heard Tony Bennett mutter, “that was three years ago.” I’m sorry, Mr. Bennett–relevance? What if it was 3 years ago, would it be right for you to scowl and mutter under your breath at an elderly constituent? Mr. Bennett clearly fails to appreciate the phrase “public servant,” or realize it applies to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boots On, by one “John Galt”, has been around for a while.\u00a0 It’s not the highest-profile MOB blog, but it’s mighty good – hard-right, unapologetic, consisten and articulate. Galt attended a Ramsey County “Truth In Taxation” meeting a few weeks back.\u00a0 And he didn’t like what he saw: Last but not least, don’t forget the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7651,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions\/7651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}