Pay disparities prove need for government leaders to cut back

Pay disparities prove need for government leaders to cut back

With all the talk of Senate Bill 5, school teachers, as well as other state employees, have been under the microscope by Gov. John Kasich.

The article “Kasich appoints Johnson to board” [The Vindicator, June 9] states that Columbiana County Republican Party Chairman Dave Johnson was appointed to the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation board of directors along with 10 others. He will make $60,000 annually to serve on the board that meets two days a week each month. Mr. Johnson will be making $2,500 a day or $312 an hour if working an eight-hour day.

A beginning teacher in the Campbell City Schools starts with a salary of $32,972, which calculates to $180 a day or $22.50 an hour based on an eight-hour day. A teacher with a master’s degree makes as much as $65,297 which is $357 a day or $44.50 an hour, not to mention the average cost of a master’s degree at a public college is $28,400.

These figures are based on the current school-year salary schedule, which also will be the next two school-year salary schedules since Campbell Education Association members took a two-year wage freeze.

It’s time for government officials to take a good hard look in the mirror and begin to cut their budgets and spending. As anyone knows, a business/corporation, school system or other entity is only as good as its leaders.

Maybe our leaders need to be replaced?

Lenny Romito, Campbell

Memo to Anthony Weiner: There’s no cure for stupidity

As yet another deviant creep sent to Washington by taxpayers to represent us, Anthony Weiner has decided to opt for professional treatment at an undisclosed location for an undiagnosed discretion.

Instead of promising some miracle cure, Weiner should do the noble act of resigning the Congress in disgrace.

Hey Anthony, you can con your constituents and maybe some of America into believing you are a hapless victim of some mysterious disorder that causes you to photograph your — uh, well you know — but what I’ve learned from the dumb things I’ve accomplished over my 60 years is this: There ain’t no cure for stupidity.

Frank Santolla, North Lima