Auntie Charo's Soapbox

So okay, it's pretty much a 'ho hum' day for the news....local, that is....the gov's shaking hands with the Japanese tour operators, Rlene Steffy is working on presenting her thoughts on Japanese atrocities and presenting it to them-or something like that, and I'm not going to argue about the San Nicolas lady pharmacist in the south who's holding a hammer over the government's head because she wants a title and lots more money from a government that can hardly pay its bills. I'm sorry lady, you'll be missed but you'll eventually be replaced even the the talk show host reporters think otherwise. In a perfect world, you (Ms. San Nicolas pharmacist,) deserve the promotion, deserve the increase in salary because you do the work of 6 people but we seem not to be thinking clearly these days and what money we had for people like yourself who deserve the bucks and promotion have gone to people in offices closer to Anigua and Adelup, their world being more perfect than yours. At some time, there's truth in the saying that 'charity begins at home' and if there's an offer for better pay, better working conditions and better medical insurance provisions for you in the private sector, then you have to weigh the offer and decide to take it....or, not. You can't hold the offer over those whose lives seem to depend on your being at the pharmacy where they get their medicine dispensed. As well, our government can't operate/function with just one person in a position. What happens to the pharmacy when the pharmacist goes on vacation, has personal emergencies, God forbid, dies or, quits?...Certainly, this is no way to run a government agency, no? Alas! In a perfect world!
How sad it is that here we are talking about increases and promotions and job securities from a government bloated with people that uses up all that it gets from monies it collects from the private sector in the collection of taxes and gross receipts.
This government has never taken the time or opportunity to set aside the time or money for future spending...capital spending. We ask parents to paint the public schools, barely afford to paint the hospital or wait for FEMA funds after a typhoon to repaint the hospital, we even wait for a typhoon to repair the governor's 'mansion' ...We never have the money to build new schools, never have the money to repair or maintain anything because we spend almost all of the money paying salaries for government employees...employees that promise to re-elect us for whatever office we're running for at the time they get that government position... You can be sure that no elected official has escaped the sin of having placed someone in a government job because a 'constituent' didn't ask him for a job........so one wonders how many 'constituent'(s) bloat this government....the very 'bloat' that causes it not to be able to pay many private companies hundreds of thousands of dollars owed them....if you need evidence of this, check out the accounts payable at GMH beginning with the amounts owed Dr. Nathaniel Berg at GRC....or, Monty McDowell at Advance Management....
otherwise, have a nice rainy day!