Comments on: Politician-Assisted Suicide

By: pambordelon

pambordelon — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:22:22 +0000

I am an Alabama native who has been living in Louisiana for 30 years now. My brother works for Jefferson County and in one of the employees to be furloughed. I have a few questions – Has the mainsterm local media been bringing this to the voters attention before now?
And, maybe more importantly, why is the Alabama legislature involved in deciding Jefferson or any other county's taxing authority? That is a measure the voters of the county should decide not the legislature.
You guys are making us look pretty good these days – should I say thank you?

By: million

million — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:20:33 +0000

what if everyone (judges, sheriffs, county commissioners included) took a 1/3rd paycut and had their defined pensions cut? disclosure: i live no where near JeffCo, not even in the same state.

By: SBurks

SBurks — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:28:13 +0000

The city council and the co. commissioners are playing “chicken” with the citizens, and that will come back to bite their butts! They are no different than the rest of us, in that we ALL have to learn to do more with less. I hate that the rank and file employees are used as pawns like this, but I hope they will hang tough, and give this mess time to resolve itself. The off time could be used to consider who we will vote for, and replace these morons with people who understand the concept of public service!

By: Helen Rivas

Helen Rivas — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:03:02 +0000

Thank you for yet another well-crafted analysis, Kyle. It's wonderful not to have to disentangle and lay out clearly all the threads of this calamity. You save me time–and spare my contacts confusion.

Fellow Countians, call your legislators to reinforce the need to produce a bill to deal with this process. Also, you can join county employees 8-9 a.m., on Monday morning at the Innovation Depot to let officials know you want a solution to this crisis which affects not only employees but vendors and service providers and recipients of occuational tax fuds (Meet on 14th St. N. side, between 1st and 2nd Aves N.).

By: bhamweekly

bhamweekly — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:48:32 +0000

JCEmployee,

Thanks, and good luck to you.

KW

By: jcemployee_n_need_of_a_job

jcemployee_n_need_of_a_job — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:35:10 +0000

A very well written and fair telling of the story. Rumor today is that the two thirds of employees has now changed to 96% of the remaining employees.

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