lafourche parish council

This post is my sister's fault.

I was talking about it to her last night

and the more I talked to Veronica the more angry

I became. Why?

Because our Parish Council

will make a decision as to whether or not

they will give themselves a pay raise.

My facts last night were not all known

so this morning I read the news article

and yes, it is true, they are going to discuss

it but unlike I believed last night I do believe

it will go to the people for voting.

Not just a little raise, it would give

the Parish President a raise from $65,000 a year

to $100,000 a year....

Each council member, over $5,000.

I also need to mention that some of those members

are against it, Daniel Lorraine is against it.

I am against it.... have you ever watched this crew on

channel 10 try and make a decision?

It doesn't happen, why?

Because they have so many personal issues with each other

that they can't put it aside to make a decision and

they look and sound dumb when doing it...

Why else am I against it?

Has no one on the council noticed that education

and teachers are being cut?

You know what my teacher friends were told

when they questioned whether last year

they would be getting their annual raise?

They were told, "Be glad you have a job"

then our school board, through no fault of their own

but because of budget cuts, cut teachers.

Cut teachers, in a time when children need education

as much as they need food and water.

Nursing graduates cannot find jobs,

they get their degrees and they are basically told

"Good luck finding a job in your area"

The biggest thing that is driving me crazy?

Our local college is drowning...

yes, there are budget cuts so bad that there is

much talk of cutting half of the courses that are taught

right here in our very own Lafourche Parish

for some children, if Nicholls cuts their program

they are done, they can't afford to leave home,

pay the high tuition of other colleges.

My own baby girls' graphic design degree

may be cut.

We are grooming our children to instead

finish college and stay in Lafourche Parish

to work and raise a family to leave to make

their homesteads in other areas.

My own young neighbors, he, his wife and three children

had to move because he couldn't find a job.

what is his job, and anesthetist.

Yet, our parish council, some of them feel the need

for a raise. We are not talking 2% that some educators

have gotten way back when when they did get raises...

No worries, Council if things continue the

way they are going in our parish,

we won't need a council, there will be no one

here to live, work, and love our wonderful

parish....

When the voting comes up,

remember all of this and vote

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO