the swamp is insulating itself and getting swampier
Dear Friends,
Elections have consequences. HUGE consequences.
Pardon me. I almost forget. We don’t have real elections in NE. Nothing is verifiable by our citizens who depend on them. Our citizens have entirely lost agency in THEIR elections. So let me change that to … “S-elections have consequences.”
What kind of consequences are seeing with Pillen?
More transparency in government? More integrity in government? Government of, by and for the People?
No, on all accounts. The only thing we will see with Pillen is the swamp getting swampier. (That’s a dare to Pillen to do otherwise, but he’s too chicken.)
Why did Pillen give the Nebraska Patrol a historic 22% raise? (See here.)
Ricketts didn’t think it was necessary. See here.
For everyone’s information, the wage and benefit package of NSP members is controlled by statute, namely 81-1369, and that package is supposed to be based on comparability, 81-1383. (click and read if you don’t believe me)
Comparability isn’t a good thing—because it’s a self-perpetuating upward spiral in wages and benefits at taxpayer expense—BUT … it’s “the law.” (Nevermind that it’s only the law after much lobbying by public employees, through senators who were for sale and looking to stay in power.)
Here’s the “upward spiral” of comparability: When an array of political jurisdictions (in this case, various state patrol agencies) compare with one another, when one jurisdiction’s wages go up, the others follow suit. And back and forth is goes, every negotiation cycle. Comparability is a highly guarded secret.
Ricketts said NSP wages and benefits were in line with the comparability called for in statute, so has Pillen superseded the law?
If so, why?
Is he insulating himself? Is he insulating his 18 stench-producing pig confinement operations around the state that he staffs with vulnerable people from south of the U.S. border? Is he buying the NSP so they will look the other way? I hope they have more integrity than that.
We all know how government officials (not all, but many) use their positions to serve themselves, and buy support from public employees through wage and benefit increases. It’s a racket.
I can’t wait for a private sector taxpayer raise, in the form of lower taxes.
The private sector took a beating over the last three years, while government employees continued collecting their paychecks on the backs of taxpayers who weren’t allowed to work because of the plandemic.
Speaking of plandemics, I just watched this. It is the most overarching and comprehensive view of the deep state purpose for the plandemic that you will find, assuming you understand that the “virus” was all narrative (which she touches on toward the end).
This is a must see if you want to understand what is going on.
God bless,
Robert J. Borer