{"id":17879,"date":"2017-07-19T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17879"},"modified":"2017-07-19T16:12:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:12:44","slug":"perhaps-councillors-should-rethink-job-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/perhaps-councillors-should-rethink-job-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps Councillors should rethink job: Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: Workload has outgrown part-time job: Councillors, July 6)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In regards to the article as noted above in The Auroran dated July 6, it advises that Councillors will have their pay increased to off-set the income taxes they now will have to pay for the one third of their salary which previously was exempt.<br \/>\nIt must be nice to just be able to pony up to the public money trough.<br \/>\nThe article also notes a comment from Wendy Gaertner saying, and I quote \u201cthere have been Cost of Living increases over the years.\u201d<br \/>\nReally &#8211; welcome to the real world Wendy Gaertner.<br \/>\nI can tell you without hesitation as a pensioner that the small increases in my pension don\u2019t by any means cover the increases in cost of living expenses &#8211; just try it some time.<br \/>\nArticles like this make me wonder if anyone really cares about people who are trying to live on pensions or fixed incomes.<br \/>\nAs for those Councillors who feel their salary doesn\u2019t pay enough for the work involved, my suggestion would be to do like anybody else and get another job. <\/p>\n<p><strong>William Rogers<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Workload has outgrown part-time job: Councillors, July 6) In regards to the article as noted above in The Auroran dated July 6, it advises that Councillors will have their pay increased to off-set the income taxes they now will have to pay for the one third of their salary which previously was exempt. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}