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City Needs 28 to 32 Employees To Operate Pools…Has TWO Applicants So Far.

Wait, you mean kids don’t want to jump through all your hoops (possess a current Red Cross Lifeguarding, CPR and Standard First Aid certificate) for a shitty $8.25 per hour??

You don’t say.

The only two people in this town who don’t understand how a free market in wages works are Clayton Tucker and Finley DeGraffenried, it appears.

You gotta hand it to City Manager Finley (salary and benefits of over $200,000.00) – he is really on the ball and has his finger on the pulse of the local economy.

He has just realized that “many retailers starting wages are significantly higher than what the City offers” and that “the City cannot compete with major local businesses” [page 7]

No shit!

It kind of proves the point I’ve made 50 or 60 times now that the Business Pork project is completely unnecessary, since the EXISTING businesses in town are fighting over labor already. For the City to spend $7.1 million tax dollars to subsidize MORE businesses to locate here right now is beyond moronic.

Speaking of the Business Pork, Finley also reports that “Stacey reported progress on discussions with prospects for the Business Park” [page 60]

That would be Stacey Ybarra, the new Economic Development Director who is making well over $115,000.00 in salary in benefits after two months on the job.

So there is a TON of money to pay an “economic development director” [who does not even live in Lampasas, by the way] to run around and try to find crappy businesses to subsidize in the Business Pork (** cough ** Eco-Strong? ** cough **) but NO money to pay the LOCAL high school kids a decent lifeguard wage?

I even outlined a simple plan for Finley almost THREE YEARS AGO on this issue:

Dear Finley: You Are Full Of Crap [Part I, II, III]

There is one simple answer: the lifeguard wages must be jacked immediately to $12 or $15 – there is no other answer. The pools MUST be opened. That is one of your basic jobs as City government – police, pure water, parks, potholes and pools. Get that shit right before you start wasting millions on vanity projects.

Instead, they have been wasting millions of dollars and hundreds of manhours on superfluous garbage like the Business Pork project and the Hostess House debacle.

Can’t wait to see how they handle this on Monday evening!!

Fake Farmer “Working Hard” Waltzing Around the Capitol Building Taking Selfies.

The fake farmer and rancher is at it again! He has found about a dozen different ways to “work hard for the people” without actually ever doing any work. It’s amazing. Truly, a Bernie Sanders clone in every way.

Yes, he’s “hard at work”. Just look at him! Today is one of the first few days of spring, the weather is beautiful and REAL farmers were tilling and planting like crazy today. REAL farmers are getting shit in the ground for the rains coming next week and getting their hands dirty.

For the record: this is hard work:

This is NOT hard work:

Fake farmers drive down to Austin after getting up at 9:30am and stroll around the rotunda taking pictures of themselves and probably loitering around outside Vikki Goodwin’s office hoping she’ll offer him a cushy job.

He’s doing all of this to “make sure folks are better able to buy and sell” food, whatever that means. I don’t see anyone starving in the streets around here – in fact, quite the opposite. Local Marxist Bruce Haywood and appears to be quite well-fed despite not even working for a living:

Seems like everyone is pretty “able” to buy food, despite Green New Deal retards like AOC, Joe Biden, and Clayton Tucker causing the price of diesel, fertilizer and other crucial farm inputs to explode higher with their idiotic policies and push to eliminate “evil” fossil fuels.

In fact, Comrade Clayton Tucker, who claims to be a farmer, lives in his mom’s house literally TWO BLOCKS from the weekly Lampasas Farmers Market – which happens tomorrow. Seems to me that if Clayton Tucker the farmer wants to feed people, he’d be at the market tomorrow selling the food he grows.

But I’ll bet you a MILLION DOLLARS that he won’t be! Tell you what, comrade: I’ll bring MY products down there tomorrow and give them away for free. I think I have a few dozen eggs in the fridge from my chicken coop. How about you do the same with YOUR products.

You know where to reach me: lampasshole@protonmail.com

Local Libscum Grady Lucas Seems To Be Obsessed With Defending Perverts

Just as libs accuse the right of “banning books” when they try to limit filth to age-appropriate groups, these pervs are trying to equate these sick drag shows to Robin Williams dressing up like Ms. Doubtfire or Barney Fife putting on a wig back in 1962.

You all remember local commie scumbag Grady Lucas and his “soar” throat?

According to morons like Grady “Pass the Man Gravy” Lucas, these actors dressed up as old ladies in movies (which are often rated PG-13) and TV shows…

….are the EXACT same thing as the perverted current drag shows where 6-year-old kids shove dollar bills into the pants of half-naked sickos wearing thongs and simulating oral sex in front of them…

Yeah. Exactly the same thing, Grady.

Apparently a man grabbing his dick and thrusting in front of a child, or beginning to take his pants off as part of a strip tease, is not considered sexual to Grady Lucas. If you don’t think it is sexualizing a child to bring them around men in lingerie emulating sex acts then you should never be allowed around children. That goes for Grady Lucas.

This is what they always do – pretend that the only people objecting to this sort of child abuse are conservatives. It’s so insulting to liberals more than anything. As if the core tenet of liberalism is accepting the sexualization of children by the age of 6. This is what Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy had in mind, right??

They’ll say “I get if drag performances aren’t your thing, you don’t have to go.”

So if fucking teenage girls isn’t your thing then you don’t have to go to Epstein Island, right? Is that how it works?

He’s doing the typical thing that degenerates like him do to defend the sexualization of children – framing an objection to it as an attack on the BLT-123-LGBTQ++ mafia:

These are the people pushing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” on everyone else, so that they can participate in sexual events for children and not feel like the grooming quasi-pedophiles that they are emulating. People like them will tell you that this it’s important to expose children to drag queens so that we can teach them to embrace people who look different from them. Except they never do this with burn victims, midgets, the blind, or other people who are different through no fault of their own. Drag queens CHOOSE to dress like hookers and mock womanhood. Bringing children to drag queen events to embrace diversity is like brining children to a strip club to embrace feminism.

The fact that Grady Lucas seems to spend a majority of his time defending perverted shit like this publicly means that Grady Lucas is the kind of guy I would NEVER want my kids around unattended.

There once was a moron named Grady

Who preferred that his men dress like ladies

If you have a kid

I’d keep them well hid

‘Cause he looks like he’s pretty damned shady

***Definitely does NOT own a windowless van***

Just Getting Started…

More bank failures are coming.

Big banks have a long enough memory to not step in and buy these flailing banks. These banks are sitting in no man’s land, because nobody wants to say that they’ve failed. I think we are going to see more bank failures, because we have not seen the biggest banks step up.

Following the failure of SVB and Signature, the Fed, U.S. Treasury Department, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) bailed out the banks’ depositors, including those with uninsured deposits above $250,000. Unfortunately, now a bad precedent has been set, with regulators signaling that clients in other banks could have full coverage of their deposits.

The precedent has been set, and it cannot be unset. As regulators, it’s not your job to pick winners and losers, but that’s the corner they [The government and Fed] backed themselves into when they backed all of the uninsured deposits of Signature and SVB.

We’re in the middle of a banking crisis that nobody wants to call a banking crisis.

Schools Do NOT Need More Money

Chicago Public Schools plans to spend $9.4 billion in the 2023 school year on 321,000 students. That comes out to $29,307 per student – a new record.

Just four years ago the district spent $7.5 billion on an enrollment that was 40,000 students higher. Then, the total taxpayer cost was just under $21,000 per student.

What does that mountain of money buy you? Not much:

Today just 1 in 10 black CPS students can read at grade level and only 1 in 20 are proficient in math.

Less than 10% of black 3rd-graders read at grade level based on the most recent Illinois Assessment of Readiness test.

It’s even worse for math readiness.

The Chicago Teachers Union makes sure its members and schools are protected regardless of student outcomes.

98% of CPS teachers were rated “proficient or excellent” in 2020. 100% of teachers got the same rating in 2021. And in 2022, 84% of all evaluated CPS teachers were rated either “proficient or excellent.

Schools, too, get protected under updated state board of education measurements. School ratings aren’t based on whether kids can read or do math but instead on “improvements.”

The problem isn’t money.

Trump Arrest Rumors

Supposedly Trump will be in cuffs next week. Lefty clowns like Grady Lucas and Bruce “The Manatee” Haywood will be giddy. They won’t be able to stop posting memes for the two weeks afterwards.

Pay attention to New York. Much bigger problem for Trump there than the feds because every person involved in this in New York can do it free of consequences.

Letitia James cut a deal for Chuck Schumer’s senate seat. This is her end.

You heard it here first.

Just remember that Bill Clinton did the same thing with Paula Jones – That one was $850,000 (in 1998 dollars).

This is all to get violence in the streets. The democrats want republicans to riot and hurt people (cops) so they can replay those tapes forever and say it’s ‘worse than 1/6 and 9/11 combined.”

Nobody needs to fall for this, the bullshit charges won’t stick. Everyone needs to be cool.

Not sure how NYPD manages to get handcuffs on Trump in Florida. I guess they can try to extradite him, but somehow that seems unlikely.

Socialist Cockroach Finds Yet Another Useless Parasite To Brownnose and Suck Up To

Like a bad penny, local socialist maggot (and habitual liar) Clayton Tucker of Lampasas (Texas SDEC-24) keeps popping up in pictures with some of the biggest scumbags in politics…

***Socialist scumbag Greg Casar – never had a job in his life.***

**Socialist scumbag Ilhan Omar – never had a real job**

When you don’t have real job and mom pays your rent, you are free to galivant around to Austin, Dallas and Waco to get pictures with other socialist losers, in the hope that you can glom onto their “success” and maybe get a cushy do-nothing job in their office.

Now he’s found a brand-new ass to lick in his hope to climb the ladder within the nest of socialist rats that seems to grow by the day: Congressvermin Jasmine Crockett. Crockett took $1.5 MILLION DOLLARS from disgraced crypto scammer Sam Bankman-Fried – and has not returned it.

***Crockett took $1.5 million of essentially stolen money***

***Most blatant ass kissing I’ve ever seen in my life***

#1 – “Dedication to help”? She has been in office for about 60 days. She was a public defender before that and is a carpetbagger from St. Louis. She has never farmed a day in her life (just like Comrade Clayton). The GOP controls the House now, Comrade Clayton, so this chick has ZERO power to do anything at all. You are digging a dry well. Story of your life.

#2 – “Farmers and ranchers”? Comrade Clayton is neither one of those things. So what is he doing at this meeting of the “experts”? Just taking pictures and kissing asses, hoping to get noticed, that’s what.

#3 – “Ensure everyone has access to nutritious food”? Jasmine Crockett (and other scumbag politicians) has ZERO to do with that either. We can thank HEB, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods and actual farmers for providing food through the free market. Politicians create nothing of value. Ever.

#4 – “Overall leadership”? LOL. Again, she has been there 60 days and is in the minority party in the House. She has done nothing. This is pure ass kissing on the part of Comrade Clayton, hoping to get a real, live U.S. Congressvermin to re-post his praise…which she did.

#5 – Crockett was happy to hear “directly from the farmers” who are “experts”. Comrade Clayton is neither a farmer nor an expert on anything. So I again wonder why he is there – besides the obvious reason of kissing ass in the hopes of being noticed.

#6 – Crockett “brought D.C. to Texas!” – Jesus Christ, please no. That is the last thing ANYONE who works in the real world wants.

Furthermore, I GUARANTEE YOU that anything this moron Crockett tries to stick into the Farm Bill will be a bunch of global warming, green new deal bullshit that will end up hurting REAL farmers and ranchers in the end.

Just ask the Dutch about that.

***Trying hard to kiss ass of 81-year-old parasite.***

Everybody Gets To Pay For Bailout Of Tech Weasels

I’d be pissed if I were a bank that did the right thing…

Turns out you CAN’T just conjure money out of thin air. Those deposits were not covered by law. So now the FDIC has to stick it to the rest of us to make up the difference. The difference will be roughly $40 billion dollars. The Treasury has already made a loan, apparently. But that will need to be paid back – this isn’t Ukraine, after all…

Retirees living off social security and food stamps will pay for this. Teachers will pay for this. Shop owners will pay for this. Kids getting their first job will pay for this. Farmers will pay for this. All to ensure that Roku did not have any worries? Fuck Roku. Who says we need 27 streaming services to begin with? Roku is a child of 0% interest rates that would have never been born otherwise.

After Two Years, Idea of Raising Lifeguard Wages Finally Penetrates Finley’s Thick Skull

Well, I certainly feel vindicated. After YEARS listening to Finley stand up there at council meetings stupefied that nobody wants to work for his shitty $7.50/hr wage (now bumped to $8.25 after 2 years of being shorthanded) and YEARS of ranting about how the solution is to pay them a normal lifeguard wage (at least $10/hr) he may finally be seeing the light.

He told council tonight that he was “a little concerned” because only ONE person has applied to work at the pool. In a rare moment of enlightenment, he says “there is a lot of competition for labor out there.”

No shit?!? Jesus Christ. Talk about living under a rock in a fantasy world. This is the SAME Finley who threw $110,000 at Ryan Ward for the ACM position (about 30% higher than the national average) and $85,000 at Stacey Ybarra (more than Mandy made after 5 years there) but he is too stupid to realize he needs to jack the lifeguard wage up to at LEAST $10/hr? Mind boggling.

He tells council “we may have to get creative…we may have to look at our pay scale“. That is not creative, you moron. That is math….and I have suggested it over and over and over.

You see, Finley only overpays Directors and Nerf job holders. That’s because (a) they will lick his balls harder in gratitude and (b) the higher he jacks the salaries of Nerf jobs holders like Stacey Ybarra and Ryan “Seth Rogen” Ward, the higher he can request his OWN salary be bumped in comparison – because is at the top of the totem pole and if any Nerf director directly under him gets up too high in salary, the answer is to raise Finley’s salary in response.

I suspect “Doctor” Chane Rascoe thinks the same way.

Lifeguards, on the other hand, are seasonal workers with zero contact with Finley. So Finley has no interest in helping them as they won’t be directly under his command and eager to lick his sack in thanks – like Ward is.

This is why Finley works in government and not in the private sector.

Goldfish Swim Tonight – Council Meeting 3-13-23

A weem-a-way, a weem-a-way, a weem-a-way, a weem-a-way

In the fish bowl, the pricey fish bowl, the Goldfish swim tonight!

Oooooh, oooooh eee-ooo-wam-a-way.

Join us on Gab.com – for commentary.

Will the Hostess House debacle be dealt with? Any word on a possible tenant for the Business Pork?? We’ll find out soon…