Help me understand this: The county had a ,40-million rainy day fund and it/s gone.

Now, they have a deficit in their promises of pensions, etc., to county employees.

Yet, every day I hear the same nonsense ad for new employees to get on board the gravy train.

How do you think an 82-year-old widow on a skimpy budget trying to pay her taxes and not become homeless feels?

Supervisors, wake up and do the right thing for people who pay the tax bills.

Aileen Huntington

Santa Maria

March 23, 2008