Pride in Dorr Township

Yesterday's Our View editorial in the Northwest Herald recognized Dorr Township for its leadership position in McHenry County. The category?

Highest number of paid holidays!!!

Coming in at 16 (at least, according to the Northwest Herald editorial board), Dorr Township outranks the federal government, who get a paltry 10 paid holidays each year.

I urge every reader in McHenry County to print copies of the two articles (9/5 and 9/6) from www.nwherald.com about the pay "scams" being jammed down the throats of taxpayers and to analyze them for your own territories.

Maybe governments should, when they hire workers, tell them, "You've got a job for up to ten years. Then you're out, and then we are going to hire someone else at a starting pay that is back down the scale."

Look carefully at the total compensation packages of some of the highly-paid people around the country, and then look at their time-off. So, not only do they get paid highly, they get to work less and less for it. What's wrong with this picture?

Maybe even MCC could follow suit. Instead of oiling the revolving wheel on the president's office and paying more and more each time the door goes around, it ought to take into consideration that, with lots of other highly-paid workers, maybe they don't have to pay the chief so much.