There are fools and then there are fools. From the venerable chambers of City Hall, to the hallowed halls of academia, to the front seat of a rusty Yellow Cab, Wusta has more than its share of them.The past week has been one that our offices haven’t experienced in months. Seems the entire city had a massive case of sunstroke after experiencing a run of 70 degree days recently. We think a few brain cells got scrambled in the process.
So here's the moment you've all been waiting for. Drum roll please... After no deliberation whatsoever, the staff at WWW has unanimously voted the esteemed WWW Blogging Fool Award to Worcester’s very own Worcester Magazine for it’s April 1st editorial, Worcester Needs Jobs. (We think it's meant to be an April Fool's joke).
Seems the less than astute WOMAG staff has a very short collective memory and an astoundingly poor understanding of business issues, like their brethren at WBJ. As you recall, last year WOMAG fired a dozen employees and cut salaries to the bone for no other reason than to boost its bottom line. In socialist Worcester no less.
And it seems Gareth Charter (no relation to the cable giant Charter Communications) did us all a favor by firing a bunch of aging hippies and bringing in fresh blood - anemic, but fresh none-the-less. Their April 1st editorial is proof that you get what you pay for.
So to the staff at WOMAG, for all your hard work, dedication, and your ability to oversimplify and misinform citizens, and being completely naive and partisan on the subject of taxation, we at WWW present you with the WWW Blogging Fool Award.
Apart from the histrionics, the question remains. How is Wusta to boost employment and increase its tax base when every sweat shop like WOMAG is throwing it's taxpaying and voting citizens out on the street? Would a cut in the commercial rate actually have saved those jobs? Of course not.
And anyone who says so is a ... Blogging Fool.
