The Ruling Class

Face of the True 1%

Xavier De La Torre of the 1%

by Dave Blount
There’s no need to worry about the economy, despite indications that California and soon after the entire country will go bankrupt. There must be much more money in the coffers than we thought. Otherwise, our rulers wouldn’t be shoveling it around like this:

Xavier De La Torre, 48, was confirmed Wednesday afternoon as [Santa Clara County, California's] top educator. He will be paid $299,500 annually, plus receive a $12,000 annual auto allowance and, with at least a satisfactory performance in the first year, $20,000 more toward purchase of pension credits. His salary will rise automatically every July by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index forthe Bay Area. …

De La Torre is also being offered a $1 million home loan, half at 2 percent and half at 3 percent interest rates. The board will also advance him $25,000 for moving expenses.

If you are like most people in the private sector, you will have to work hard for years — creating wealth, as opposed to warming a seat in the grotesquely bloated education bureaucracy — to come up with that kind of money. Then Big Government will confiscate as much of it as greedy bureaucrats see fit, to shower upon gravy train passengers like Xavier De La Torre.

Commenter Michael Van Nuland sums up the situation:

I would like to introduce everyone to the face of the true 1%. People who take far too much of the public’s money. They should be ashamed of themselves, but then again, the entitled have no shame.

Yet we don’t rebel.