City of San Diego To Create Volunteer Service

City of San Diego To Create Volunteer Service

Following on the heels of their very successful program to recruit San Diego gang members to improve the credit rating of the city, San Diego officials are now proposing a volunteer service that could be utilized for all kinds of city services, such as filling potholes. The cost to fill a single pothole is becoming astronomical because of the wage paid to city workers plus the amount of the pension contribution. Whereas the gang recruitment program is helping the city both by the credit improvement and getting gang members off the street and integrating them into the mainstream financial system, it still costs the city because the gang members still insist on getting their cut, which is now called a commission. The volunteer system is different in that volunteers don’t get paid except for the experience they receive and the good feelings they take with them when they leave and that the city is making the volunteering mandatory. Asked how they would enforce a mandatory volunteerism, officials said that jail time would probably do.
As expected, unions are against the program as are all the tire shops.

©2009 Eric Stamets