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WSB<\/a>: South Fulton taxpayers \u2018livid\u2019 because mayors wants to give himself a raise<\/span><\/p>\n It was 7:10 am and I was in the kitchen groggily pondering my life while getting ready to start preparing breakfast for the kids, when I saw the headline for this article pop up on my Echo.\u00a0 My brow furrowed, and my knee-jerk reaction was what, fuck that<\/em> when I pulled out my phone to look up the story to find out more.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve said it many times that despite the fact that I\u2019ve long bid good riddance to South Fulton county, I still have a casual interest in the goings over there, because I do believe that in spite of all the corruption and ironic bad behavior that will always render the place a swampy swirl, I do feel for those that are good, that still live there and believe in the place, even if I don\u2019t, and want good for those people.\u00a0 And my knee-jerk reaction was that a mayor giving himself more money for a region that seems incapable of improvement, doesn\u2019t sound like a very good idea for those people.<\/span><\/p>\n But then I read the context behind the headline, and my attitude changed fairly quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n Turns out the Mayor of the City of South Fulton was making a paltry $47,676 a year.\u00a0 The caveat to it is that for whatever reason, it was in a part-time capacity, and there are all sorts of easy jokes about how it\u2019s possible or why it\u2019s just part-time explains why South Fulton is such a wasteland, but in terms of numbers, the mayor was making a wage that frankly I don\u2019t think is necessarily livable in the Metro Atlanta area.<\/span><\/p>\n It should also be mentioned that one of the former mayors of Atlanta once was discovered in an audit to have spent upwards of $20K doled out to employees as prizes and bonuses for holiday parties, to give a barometer of how much reckless spending there is in this general region.<\/span><\/p>\n But yeah, the mayor of the City of South Fulton is currently making $47K and wants to bump himself up to $85K; the article states that it\u2019s a 78% increase presumably to increase outrage, but it\u2019s really 55%, and frankly, for doing the thankless job in a wasteland, even if it\u2019s at a part-time capacity whatever that entails, I don\u2019t think is an unreasonable amount to propose.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like he\u2019s asking for six figures to do the seemingly nothing that all the politicians in the Metro area do, and frankly it\u2019s not like he hasn\u2019t earned some money for all the efforts he\u2019s tried to put into his jurisdiction.<\/span><\/p>\n For context, after being elected, he deliberately moved himself into one of the sketchiest apartment complexes in one of the most sketchiest parts of town, to try and prove to his constituents that he was one of them and was a man of the people.\u00a0 He eventually had to bail because unsurprisingly a place like that had tremendous mold problems and it was threatening to the lives of him and everyone who lived there (the complex has since mostly burned down, \u201caccidentally\u201d), but this is the kind of guy that he tried to be, as a politician.<\/span><\/p>\n Regardless, there are many in South Fulton who are deemed as livid because he wants a little bit more money to part-time reside over them, and after seeing the numbers, I\u2019m not opposed to it anymore as much as I think a lot of it should be past-services due.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s like that scene in Ocean\u2019s 13<\/em> where the dice factory goes on strike, and Andy Garcia as Terry Benedict hears the number $30,000, and is all like $30K for every employee<\/em>?\u00a0 And then is informed that it\u2019s just $30k is what they\u2019re demanding in total, and everyone\u2019s just basically like.. that\u2019s it?<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s how I feel about this guy asking for a little bit more money.\u00a0 It\u2019s not an egregious amount, and it\u2019s frankly too modest in my opinion.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s easy for me to say not being my tax dollars and my money, but if anyone were to offer me a 55% raise to go live back in South Fulton County, I\u2019m not doing it.\u00a0 Not even for a 100% raise, because there\u2019s no way I could afford to live in a secluded fortress away from all the bullshit, not to mention the agony commute I\u2019d be putting myself into again.<\/span><\/p>\n Man is just asking for a modest raise to continue living in a part of town that mostly everyone has given up on and doesn\u2019t believe in, and even if he is one of the many Metro Atlanta politicians blowing smoke, $85K a year seems like a rounding error in comparison to some of the flagrantly irresponsible spending going on around the rest of the Metro area.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WSB: South Fulton taxpayers \u2018livid\u2019 because mayors wants to give himself a raise It was 7:10 am and I was in the kitchen groggily pondering my life while getting ready to start preparing breakfast for the kids, when I saw the headline for this article pop up on my Echo.\u00a0 My brow furrowed, and my … Continue reading Oh, South Fulton #47<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,79,100,45,143,52,49],"class_list":["post-50242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-batarians","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-ohatlanta","tag-owned","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50244,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50242\/revisions\/50244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}