The Government Elite and Holidays!

Can someone please explain to me why the State of Virginia and Botetourt County gave all their employees the following holidays?
Christmas - December 23 and 24. Taxpayers - 1/2 of December 24th
New Years 1/2 of December 30th and all of December 31. Taxpayers - No time off!
This weekend - January 14th (Lee Jackson Day) AND January 17th (MLK). Taxpayers - no time off or some on the 17th.

We are in the middle of an economic slowdown. Why do government employees who receive pensions, health insurance, and automobiles also get all these days off when they don't even fall on the holiday? The private sector doesn't take the holidays when they are on the weekend, why does the public sector?

Speaking of elitist government, the way to fix Social Security and the health care crises is to make the congress use both. They have their own health care and if you serve one term in congress, you get a pension for life! What happened to citizen legislators?

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Butt headed people who make everything political!

Both sides do it. Conservatives and liberals like to jump to conclusions that they think makes some stupid point of their political agenda. Today lots of crass liberals are basically saying that Sarah Palin killed the congresswoman in Arizona because there's a web site with the congresswoman's head in gun sites. These are the same liberals who laughed at this: Or this: These are ok but Palin's cause deaths! Somehow they missed the report that the shooter's my space page states that he was a big fan of the communist manifesto which would align him more with Obama than Palin.

People of Murray Street now raise their ugly head.

Just got a letter from the people of Murray Street...guess they moved from Roanoke Street. The letter said I should trim my bushes, That seems a bit personal, my bushes and the amount they are trimmed is best left to me. Also that I should clean up the mess. We recently put the house on the market so the mess was pretty much tidied up. One one have to assume that the person or creature writing these missives must be a clean and tidy freak of some sort, beyond the obvious matter that they are frigging' crazy! I was starting to take these personal but after showing the letter to some of my neighbors, they allowed as to the fact they had received some as well. So I guess psycho letter writer has several targets. So just to be clear, we won't be making any changes to our bush trimming.

Is Blacksburg, Virginia over enforcing "drunk in public?"

In the last couple of weeks I've had several people tell me they had been arrested for drunk in public in Blacksburg, Virginia. All of them were walking home late at night, alone, seemingly being responsible by not drinking and driving. A police officer driving by stopped and inquired if the person had been drinking and then arrested them for drunk in public. This piqued my interest as to why would someone walking home minding their own business get arrested for drunk in public. All said they were not stumbling in the street or misbehaving. Then I ran across this article from the Collegiate Times in 2004. It seems the Town of Blacksburg can collect the money from the fine for drunk in public. I guess the local police are instructed to collect some taxes for the good of the town when they are having a slow night. I understand that people who are obnoxiously drunk in public or a danger to themselves or others should be arrested. The problem with the charge is th...

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