Shepherd?

The City of Kissimmee Commission meeting from this past Tuesday was supposed to be as the Osceola News Gazette stated, “uneventful.” But, of course as we have already written earlier this week, the meeting was anything but uneventful. We have already told you about Commissioner Gemskie’s tirade on the Fire Department and Commissioner Irizarry, but what we did not cover were his ramblings. During the rant, Commissioner Gemskie stated that elected officials are the “Shepherds of tax money.” So the WayneWho staff has to ask the question, does that mean the taxpayers are sheep?

We would have to agree with Mr. Gemskie that we are sheep and the elected officials are the shepherds. With the way politicians want to constantly cry wolf to scare us, then shear the wool from us, we feel that Mr. Gemskie spoke the truth of how politicians view the citizens. Roll us over and shave our bellies because we are too scared to say a thing about it.

We find it sad that politicians think of themselves as shepherds instead of stewards of our tax money. The main difference is that stewards protect while shepherds wave a big stick and do a lot of yelling. They don’t really do much else, but that is what we as sheep have come to expect. Maybe one day we will elect stewards. Till then, beware of the shears because government always wants its cut.