High salaries reflect imbalance

Regarding the May 19 article, “PUD chief rewarded with bonuses on top of $337,000 salary“:

Wow, $337,000 salary for the PUD chief plus bonuses. Must be nice. While customers struggle to pay their monthly electric bills. Seniors on Social Security who haven’t even received a cost of living raise in two years. A raise, by the way, that would barely pay for a Happy Meal at McDonald’s. I guess the bad economic times haven’t arrived at the PUD just yet. While 47,000 people in our country are on food stamps, people like this just keep rolling along on their fat salaries.

Now the city of Snohomish wants to know if the rest of us want to pay more to save the police department. The state is almost broke, in fact the whole country has maxed out the credit card to the tune of $14 trillion, and now the president purposes more aid to other countries.

Now we are told that North Korea is going to starve starting in June unless we help. This is a country that would rather spend its money on nukes than feed its people. Me, I’m tapped out, I say no more foreign aid to anyone. Today our president has thrown Israel under the bus, the only real friend we have in the Mideast. Time to apply the brakes to spending on wars, and start spending the money here at home. Remember the old saying? “Charity begins at home.”

Chuck Heinitz
Snohomish