Dear Editor:
RE: Last week’s editorial (Largesse and apathy, Jan. 3).
Thanks for the wake-up call; we have been ignoring, at our own cost, the foolishness of politicians and the greed which, so often, seems to symbolize today’s world.
Wellington County’s senior management, like so many others in government across the country, are overpaid for what they do. Why should these folk earn more than double (and often much more) the salary the “average Joe” picks up in a year? Add all these sunshine folk together across the country (local, provincial and federal) and you would come up with a figure quite possibly in the billions of dollars and we all know this is money we can’t afford so – time to put a stop to it!
A recent item in the Toronto Star reemphasized the point; it reported that top CEO’s earn, by noon on Jan. 2 as much money as their average employees earn in a whole year! How’s that for unscrupulous greed and avarice? We’ve got a long way to go before we put even a dent in these ridiculous overpayments so we’d better get started!
Ask what local politicians and those in positions of authority prepared to do to address such absurd and unfair financial inequities? If we don’t get much help or support from our elected representatives let’s be sure to remember the next time we go in to vote!
In the meantime, keep the pressure on and be sure to make your that your vote really does count!
Eric Balkind,
Guelph