Dana Kaufmann & WMATA - Asleep at the Switch
WMATA, the agency that operates Metrorail & Metrobus, is promising reduced service and higher fares. I suspect that the agency will also request higher taxpayer subsidies to boot.
WMATA wants to reimburse all of its employees' higher medical costs and give everyone a five percent raise. Then, of course, there are all of those settlements paid to "people injured by Metrobus." Where's the public oversight? Where's some consideration for the public interest?
In the real world, companies and nonprofits alike don't reimburse all of their employees' higher medical costs. Only government agencies do that. When times are tough, employee wages aren't increased at rates higher than inflation. In the real world, there are many times when employees don't receive any raise at all. How about contracting for more administrative and maintenance services? It happens regularly in the real world.
If specious claims are gnawing at the budget, WMATA leadership needs to fight for tort reform as hard as it seeks higher taxes each year. We should pay legitimate claims, but we aren't running a giveaway business.
Where's the WMATA Board's oversight? Instead of worrying about how it can persuade legislators to raise taxes for WMATA to waste, the Board's Bozos, including Fairfax County's Dana Kaufmann, should find ways to deliver better service and reduce costs at the same time. It happens regularly in the real world. But then, no one would ever accuse Kaufmann of living in the real world. He's asleep at the switch.
Dana Kaufmann should resign immediately from the WMATA Board. Virginia should chose its new representative by drawing middle schoolers' names from a hat. We'd get better results from an 8th grader chosen at random than from Kaufmann.
WMATA wants to reimburse all of its employees' higher medical costs and give everyone a five percent raise. Then, of course, there are all of those settlements paid to "people injured by Metrobus." Where's the public oversight? Where's some consideration for the public interest?
In the real world, companies and nonprofits alike don't reimburse all of their employees' higher medical costs. Only government agencies do that. When times are tough, employee wages aren't increased at rates higher than inflation. In the real world, there are many times when employees don't receive any raise at all. How about contracting for more administrative and maintenance services? It happens regularly in the real world.
If specious claims are gnawing at the budget, WMATA leadership needs to fight for tort reform as hard as it seeks higher taxes each year. We should pay legitimate claims, but we aren't running a giveaway business.
Where's the WMATA Board's oversight? Instead of worrying about how it can persuade legislators to raise taxes for WMATA to waste, the Board's Bozos, including Fairfax County's Dana Kaufmann, should find ways to deliver better service and reduce costs at the same time. It happens regularly in the real world. But then, no one would ever accuse Kaufmann of living in the real world. He's asleep at the switch.
Dana Kaufmann should resign immediately from the WMATA Board. Virginia should chose its new representative by drawing middle schoolers' names from a hat. We'd get better results from an 8th grader chosen at random than from Kaufmann.
posted by Toomanytaxes at 7:08 AM
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