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LA City Council should drop the one-day work week

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Work is for the little people who pay taxes — not for the members of the Los Angeles City Council.

The “city slackers” have voted 12-0 to place a measure on the November ballot that would alter LA’s charter to allow for fewer council meetings — as few as one meeting per week.

You’ve got to hand it to them: A one-day work week is certainly an innovation. Especially for elected officials earning a quarter of a million dollars per year.

Some countries, like Iceland, are experimenting with the four-day work week, shaving a day off the traditional five-day week. But next to the LA City Council, they are all amateurs in the slacking department.

One could even make the grander claim that the LA City Council has successfully inverted the Bible: In Genesis, it says that God worked for six days and rested on the seventh. The LA City Council wants to rest for six days and work on the seventh, instead.

Of course, the difference is that God actually created something.

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