Supervisors eager to line their pockets

To the editor:

Tuesday brought unbelievable news on the front page of The Gazette ('Supervisors vote for 6-figure incomes”).

The Linn County Supervisors struck again by voting themselves another raise after giving themselves a $20,000 raise in 2013. At that time they went from 80 percent 'active” to full time employment.

In my 'every person's” opinion, they are appearing to do nothing more than usual politicians do with only one thing on their minds. They are eager to line their pockets at the expense of programs that need the funding and a lack of caring for what it will do to the 'smaller” people (taxpayers) struggling to make ends meet on a much, much lower income. They seem to put out the plea for more funds to pay for meals, roads, bridges, etc. which never seems to be forthcoming, but can certainly find the money to raise their pay.

It is time for residents to have a say in what benefits the politicians are allowing themselves with their votes or as they say elsewhere in the nation, using their 'executive power” to get what they want with total disregard of the taxpayers. They remind me of something my mother used to say years ago about politicians. 'They are like burnt toast. They've been in too long.” Remember this when next you vote.

Mick Hines

Cedar Rapids