For a couple years I’ve been blaming my tiredness on lack of sleep, stress, a bad diet, too much pressure, a lack of exercise, dandruff buildup and iron poor blood. I just found out the real reason I’m tired is because I’m overworked. You see, the pop-ulation of Malibu, according to the posted city signs, is 13,000 Malibuites. If 3,400 are retired, there are 9,600 to do the work of which there are 3,400 in Malibu schools, so there are really 6,200 to do the work. Of this, there are 490 employed by the federal government, leaving 4,382 to do the work. However, 380 are in the armed forces, 947 sort of toil for state and city of Malibu governments, one is a Malibu City Code Enforcement Officer and that leaves 3,054 Malibuites to do the work. At any given time there are 188 community residents in hospitals, 127 in prison or employed at local newspapers, 1,996 unemployed or on disability, 14 are engaged in chitchat at Lily’s Caf and 726 Malibuites are too prosperous to labor. That leaves just three people in Malibu to do all the work.
You, George Wing, and me!
And there you are sitting, drinking coffee, reading The Malibu Times and trying to figure out why you were hoodwinked by The Malibu Surfside News, The Malibu Times, the local PTA parents and Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s puppet Mike Matthews into voting for the latest school bond which was to pay for a new Malibu High School gym, remodel the auditorium and pay off the $50,000,000 ($50 million) overrun from the previous school bond issue. Jeffrey Kramer’s article in The Malibu Times, May 5, unmistakably points out the failure of the Santa Monica-Malibu School District to once again provide for Malibu schools as promised the local taxpayers. Malibuites once again have to experience the school district’s continued mismanagement and deference for the Malibu taxpayer.
And that is all I have to say.
Tom Fakehany