LEGISLATURE: Smelly messes abound

This session of the Legislature has been a lot like winter, so many snowstorms, most days, it was hard to see what was going on. Now that spring thaw has come, it’s apparent what the dogs have left in the yard.

Imagine you’re running a business. Entrusting them to work diligently on your behalf, you hire a bunch of people to help you. Since you’re paying them a pretty good wage and providing excellent health care coverage for them and their families, you feel secure in assuming they will act in your best interest.

But, you’re wrong. As it turns out, most of your employees turn on you, claiming they know more about your business than you do. You have expressed to them unequivocally what you want them to do. They respond by telling you that couldn’t possibly be what you want.

Au contraire, since it is your business, quite naturally, you’re attuned to every change that may affect it, and you keep a watchful eye on current events. This is easy because you live in the “information age.”

Still, your employees insist they alone are qualified to make decisions about your business. They’re miffed because you had the audacity to try to tell them what to do. Determined not to allow that in the future, conversations around the water cooler turn to mutiny. They decide behind your back to take you out of the loop. You’re no longer in charge of your own business. They propose a change in the law designed to marginalize, disenfranchise and silence you. All the while, they offer nonsensical explanations attempting to assure you they are doing this for your benefit.

If it was your business, which it is, what would you do? I hope you feel as I do that a lot of people need to be shown the door.

Maybe they can pick up the yard on their way out.

R.C. FAHLGREN

Worley