I know that the Mayor had a very difficult decision to make - lead the community and sacrifice a significant amount of time away from a young family or join the private sector and earn at least twice the money with half the hassle.
It's a tribute to his sense of responsibility and commitment to this community that he chose to continue to serve us another four years. I am confident that the majority of the electorate appreciate his efforts on our behalf and recognize the tremendous accomplishments, in a very difficult economy, that he and the City Council have been able to produce.
The arguments over style and outsourcing are nit picking annoyances in comparison to the successes achieved on our behalf. Red herring arguments about private sector delivery served up by a union trying to protect its membership dues are just that. Government should not be in any business competing with the private sector if at all possible. Its the private sector that pays the taxes and makes the government jobs possible.
The City has acted overly responsibly by not laying off the affected workers and using attrition to reduce the work force. If the company hired to do the work does not perform at the highest level they can be replaced without any long term residual labour costs. We save taxes and approximately the same number of people will be hired by the private sector to do the work so the money stays in Windsor, for the most part, and the current employees still have jobs. Talk about a "win, win" for everyone.
Now Eddie, please remember that a good leader develops a successor - you should have four more years to work on that and it will make it easier next time around.
Thank you for being there for us.
by Richard Rosenthal
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uh.. a little ahead of yourself there, dick... he's not continuing to serve for another four years.. there's that little thing called an election first...
ReplyDeleteit is has an apostrophe in it... it's...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the grammatical advice. I fixed it. That's the one word that always confuses me.
ReplyDeleteAs for getting ahead of myself - you can't blame a guy for positive thinking.
I'd rather vote in Eddie as opposed to voting in someone who is running strictly to spite Eddie. It makes me wonder if he'd do like the other #444 member on current council. Meaning, surcharge everyone as if we all make big three wages.
ReplyDeleteI'm not anti-union but I do not believe union leaders make for good politicians - they've never dealt with serious issues that had to be resolved amicably. Mayors cannot go on strike.