Part of the social contract includes ALL able working- and every 18 to 55 year old idiot on “SSDI” or having kids while on welfare is breaking that contract. What are YOU, FRANK, doing to enforce that part of the contract, during your 10 hours a day “protecting the public”? Or is that part of the social contract “not your responsability?” Then exactly who can I call about getting that enforced? (”Call your congressperson”- snort)

To answer HeyMeg, I’m part of the anti-socialist, privately-funded, “people for a better society in 100 years” movement. We rouse rabble in an effort to get people to use their brains again, and question things like “is this social program to help transgender Muslim one-legged drug addicted Hispanic sexual offenders integrate back into society (measured by not raping kids any more) something we even want to be doing in the first place.” The hope is that some incredulity will return to the masses, afer realizing that current society is outspending itself (i.e. stealing producer’s money earned through working) to benifit fringe weirdo dead-end pointless programs (e.g.: try taking your 3 year old to splash on the banks of the river without a life jacket), while ignoring bigger issues, like “who is training today’s kids how to run the country, speak and utilize the (that’s a ‘T’, ‘H’, ‘E’) language, deal with aggressive societies, and think about technical/scientific problems?”

They don’t produce or add anything? Neither do 90% of big business employees, under that definition.

Police don’t either. I don’t hear you bitching about them.

I spent 10 hours a day - minus a 45 minute lunch break where I read this blog on hot days - protecting the public, 6 days a week.

Yes, we steal your money. Because you don’t need roads. Or, you know, clean food. Or a 5 day workweek. Or fire protection. Or schools.

Being part of the social contract means agreeing to invest in our infrastructure and future. If you don’t feel like being part of this, and are willing to forego all of those things, then leave. We don’t want you as part of our culture.

But at the same time, how many of the people complaining that their salaries have been posted online have also used the database to look up their co-workers salaries?

If nobody was interested in the numbers then the database wouldn’t be so popular. Admit it, we’re a society of nosy snoopers.

C: I feel your pain. It seems like a large group of people who feel the same as you could conceivably use whatever transparency the Bee practices to find a list of advertisers who are helping the Bee make money off the use of the data. I’m just saying.

If the County is wasting money I would be more than happy to tar and feather Roger Dickinson. Though something about him makes me think he would enjoy it.

I just wonder what the point is, besides to increase web traffic and justify online advertising revenues. The information is already public, so if someone really needs this info, they can go find it.

I think that most people using this database would be doing it for the sake of being disgruntled and finding another reason to reinforce their beliefs that our government is a big waste and should be done away with.

I also think it is irresponsible to include names in this database. At the very least, if the Bee is to engage in this activity, they should list job titles, not names.

And, for disclosure, I am not a government employee, but I do work in the “governing” sector, meaning that I interact with government employees. I have also been worked at both the State and County level in the past. In general, I agree with the notion that there is government waste, but think that the “baby with the bathwater” attitude that some espouse is naive and ridiculous.

This database is just fuel for the fire and serves no positive purpose, in my mind.

To be clear, I am not a public employee so their actions have no direct effect on me. But I fail to see why we need to know the income of every single low-level employee, state, county, private, whatever. As you say, the bigger picture information would serve the public much better.