Race to the bottom; Let's make VUSD employees compete for lowest possible pay

Today in the North County Times one of our favorite anti public education bloggers, Unlaxx, has for the third time in recent weeks suggested a terrific solution to the problem of laying off VUSD employees, cut pay for all employees instead. If they do not like it, fire them and get someone else. Make employees compete for the least possible amount of money that can be offered that anyone anywhere is willing to take for work.

Tongue in cheek, I agreed with Unlaxx today. I suggested in my answer to his post an even more effective way to save taxpayer money. Why not totally eliminate pay. Instead of money offer up food scraps for meals and cardboard boxes for domiciles to those who do the jobs in VUSD. After all there are a lot of hungry homeless folks in America and if the current employees won't work for scraps, others might.

Sadly the complete lack of empathy that Unlaxx shows is contagious. It is being spread on AM radio by the hired gun 'opinion makers' like Rush Limbaugh on hundreds of stations daily and John and Ken of KFI 640 out of Los Angeles. Not only is the modest pay of public employees in their sights, but so are pensions and seniority status in lay offs.

There has been a concerted effort to reduce or end public employee pensions and seniority in the last two months. Propaganda institutes* funded by tax free gifts of billionaires have produced a plethora of anti public employee pension talking points that the paid liars of AM radio and FOXnotNews repeat endlessly.

Sadly the propaganda campaign paid for by the billionaires who do not want to contribute their fair share to keep our country safe and running is having a dramatic effect in public opinion. The economic downturn has found a ready audience for hate directed against government employees. The problem is growing in America.

I call the syndrome Acquired Empathy Disorder (AED) also known as Selfish Con Disorder (SCD). It is most virulently expressed in those who are heavily exposed to AM radio and FoxnotNews. The only cure is the reinstatement of a Fairness Doctrine that would allow all points of view to be expressed on radio and cable not just the bought and paid for ones of the rich and selfish.

Unlaxx is suffering from a very grave case of AED. You can see how bad it is if you read Unlaxx's post here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/article_4f12ad2e-2cad-5ffc-bf52-bd6b46ab906c.html?mode=comments

My response to his suggestion here:
Unlaxx at 7:20AM has focused his intellect into laser like sharpness and has discovered the source of the problem. We pay employees. Why should we pay anyone at all when there are those who would take the jobs for left over food scraps from the children's lunches.

After all we know that there are record numbers of hungry people in America. Let's put them to use.

Some may say that we have to pay them enough to rent a dwelling. I'm with Unlaxx and we say, "horse feathers." Instead of money for rent, issue cardboard boxes to the workers and let them sleep on the playgrounds at the schools.

Solves two problems at once. Gets rid of boxes that food is delivered in to the school cafeterias and gets the homeless out of our neighborhoods.

Unlaxx in his caring compassionate way has really hit on a great idea. Pay no money to any school employees. Let them compete against each other for the lowest pay possible until they are willing to work for food scraps for dinner and card board boxes for shelter. But why stop there, let's quit paying all employees for all jobs everywhere in America.

The pre Civil War southerns had it right. Why did we bother to fight that war, at all?

Then I wish I was in Dixie, hooray! hooray!
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand to live and die in Dixie,
Away, away, away down South in Dixie,
Away, away, away down South in Dixie.
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A partial list of these propaganda institutes used by the wealthy for tax shelters and to compose talking points to convince useful fools in the American populace to transfer ever more wealth out of the middle class to the ruling elite include all of the following and many, many more: American Enterprise Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Cato Institute, Pacific Institute, Manhattan Institute, Hudson Institute, Heritage Foundation. There are many others. These are the ones I remember at the moment. Another problem is Pat Robertson so called "christian" news network, while not an institute, may it may actually be worse. It runs tax free. All contributions to it are not taxed and called charitable donations, yet he and his hired guns push the same anti worker, anti environmental agenda of the super wealthy and call it religion. Sad really.