Our ‘workers’ aren’t working

I have some employees I pay pretty well. In fact, more than I get. They have better health care and pensions than I will ever have. They don’t do much work, and the work that they do I often disagree with. They are supposed to be providing liberty and justice for all, but somehow the liberty, justice and pursuit of happiness seems to fall more heavily on their side. Some of them are better at working than others, and I am not unhappy about paying them, though it still seems odd that their benefits are so much better than mine.

There are no homo-sapiens who are categorized by race, orientation or gender, yet we still have these differences about who is better and deserves more, regardless of work that they do. I thought we fought that war in 1776 so that we wouldn’t have any royals, but when folks vote on their own salaries and benefits, they seem quite generous.

The only way I can change this is to fire the ones I don’t want, but when it comes time to do that, I just don’t seem to get around to it. I wish I was smarter.

Bob Mitchell

Spokane