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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-08-10 09:14 PM Original message |
High paid city officials travel lavishly while laying off employees and cutting benefits |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-08-10 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. Vernon only has 90 residents? |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-08-10 09:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. It's a mostly industrial city. |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-10 12:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. It's home to a huge dog-food manufacturing plant. |
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GReedDiamond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-08-10 09:53 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Vernon, CA, is a very odd kind of place... |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-08-10 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
2. Thats some hefty air fare. |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-08-10 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. & there is more...1.65 million salary... |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-08-10 09:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Holy shit. That's $18,000 per resident. n/t |
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BlueCheese (897 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-08-10 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
7. As far as I can tell... |
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GReedDiamond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-08-10 11:10 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. As I understand it, the residents of Vernon... |
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flying rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-10 01:41 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Thanks for the context |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-10 11:45 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. The 90 residents are probably related to the Vernon government, industry so voting to keep the |
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GReedDiamond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-10 11:59 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Yes, exactly, that would be the case... |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-10 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
12. ...never mind. i see this is not an ordinary "city", but a privatized enclave of corporate |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-10 12:34 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. It sure seems that way. |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-10 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
14. You know what would be great? If I could tighten my belt... |
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