At the height of California facing severe financial difficulties and a State auditor finding that hundreds of thousands of dollars were wasted and some of it fraud, looks like taxpayers might think differently about jumping onto Governor Jerry Brown's tax hike bandwagon that he wants to propose to solve California's $25 billion crisis.
Now there is going to be even more tax payer money simply thrown down the garbage disposal. The City of Berkeley, which is in the helm of the dictatorship that is San Francisco, is thinking about setting aside tax payer money to pay for sex-change operations. The city council wants to pay up to $20,000 as cash stipends which would be used to pay for surgeries, even though Berkeley's employee pension plans are already skyrocketing out of control.
If this passes Berkeley's city council, this should be added to more complete waste and fraud.
Some citizens in Berkeley are a little more than irritated by this, as they can't figure out why the city council wants to waste hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for sex-change operations for city employees, when there are more serious matters that the city council should be addressing such as infrastructure issues, road improvement and keeping public buildings open.
But the City Council doesn't think that improving public use is important. While just about every city, county and State in the entire country is facing financial difficulties from having to cut employees at all levels, reduce spending and close public works, Berkeley wants tax payers to pay for some freak show.
Here's a little advice for the people in Berkeley that are city employees and can't decide if they want to be a man or a woman: pay for it yourself with your own damn money and don't ask the tax payers to front the medical bill for replacing whatever private parts you want... or go get professional help.
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