Well, better late than never.
Unfortunately, the City had to pay over $1,100 to send Economic Director Stacey Ybarra (starting salary $85,000 plus retirement and medical benefits of over $30,000 per year) on a junket to the Texas Economic Development 2023 Mid-Annual Conference in Dallas a couple of weeks ago.
I have written about these ridiculous Nerf vacations before:
Nerf Job = Nerf Workshops + Nerf Travel
Stacey came back with all SORTS of nuggets of wisdom! Just look:
No way! The world needs people willing to work who have skills, and the colleges are churning out idiots majoring in social justice and gender studies? Who knew???
She got some fancy buzzwords for her money, too. Like “little emperors” – which is a fancy term for “lazy assholes who think they are above getting their hands dirty to earn an honest living.” Like Clayton Tucker.
Oh wait. Everyone has known that for years now. If Stacey had ever worked in the private sector (or even lived in Lampasas) she would have seen it with her own eyes, like the rest of us. The only difference is Stacey Ybarra gets paid $85,000 per year (plus over $30,000 in retirement and medical insurance benefits) to go to Nerf conferences and be told the obvious – and we don’t.
Those of us who run small businesses have known for YEARS that labor is tight – and part of the problem is libtards paying people not to work and also telling them they didn’t have to pay back their school loans or pay their rent because of a fake pandemic. That obviated their need to earn a living.
Many others are just lazy assholes who live with their moms.
If Stacey read here and learned from the lessons put forth, she would have known it too:
Why the Business Park is a Disaster That Cannot Be Fixed (Feb 2022). Where I wrote yet again:
#4 Do we even really NEED the jobs??? Like a general fighting the last war, the LEDC acts like we are some worn-out, down-on-their-luck steel mill town desperate for jobs. The reality is quite the opposite! Every single business in town is hiring and cannot find workers. There are something like 4 million more jobs than workers in this country.
So if jobs are plentiful, why is the LEDC wasting $7,000,000 to bring MORE jobs?
But reading words of wisdom on these pages doesn’t cost a dime and doesn’t come with a fancy title. So instead she goes to empty rooms like this to listen to eggheads state the obvious:
The LEDC now skims over $400,000 PER YEAR off of sales taxes (see Part VIII, line 11a). The City pays the Economic Development Director $85,000 plus over $30,000 in benefits.
Are the citizens really getting over a HALF MILLION DOLLARS of value from all this bullshit every year?
I think you know the answer.