Category: Living
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Living On Last Years dollar
One of the most often things I hear, about the cost of government, is that taxes and fees are to high. I don’t necessarily disagree with the statement. As an elected official to a public office, part of your job is explaining to people what it is that they are paying for, and why they…
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Endless Debt – A Better Way To Fund Government
Some time ago, under the topic A Different Way To Fund Streets, we broached an alternative to funding streets. Normally streets, roads, highways and such are funded by taxes. These taxes have no limit, which, over time, become a burden to the people who use the roads, streets or highways. In our alternative we suggested…
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Choice, The Evilness of Restrictions
The United States of America was founded on the theory that human beings do not need Kings. That there are, in fact, ways for the common people to govern themselves. One key element of this idea, self-governance, is the notion of choice. Choice when it comes to who the leadership is, choice in how we…
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Words Really do Matter – Part Two
I have mentioned this before and it seems like a good time to mention it again. Words matter a lot in the business of politics. Consider the stock market plunge in the light of the rhetoric coming from both the Congress and the President of the United States of America. First the government decided to…
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Get everyone on board with out creating extra fees
Government, as of late, in the United States of America is more about forcing social change than it I about governance. Everything from limiting the places where one can smoke, to what kind of fuel is available for their automobile. From a casual reading, of the Constitution of the United States, government should keep people…
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How A United States President Can Govern Like A Dictator
We take a break to mention something that we all need to know about how to or not to govern. It is possible for the president of the United States to govern like a dictator. These are called Executive Orders and they are not debated in the public forum. All presidents have used them, to…
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How To Tell Where A Politician, Past and Present, Has Placed Their Money.
One of the little known, if not completely misunderstood, parts of political life is the idea of conflict of interest. Other politicians, in other countries, are normally touted as being evil because they own a part of some business, which receives a relegation benefit from the politician. This happens her two and not just with…
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Happy New Year – One Year Old!
This blog is a year old, this month, I trust that your New Year’s day went well.
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The Budget Process – Do Not Panic
Now that he budget process is over, for most governments in the United States of America, there is a little something we need to mention. Budgets are a mixture of a wish list and a road map of where public funds will be spent in the coming year or biennium. Some places use a biannual…
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Repairing Ailing Infrastructure
Most of the elected people that I know, and I do know a few, have no idea of how to incorporate an upgrade of their utility infrastructure by using a street repair program. Street repair is normally just the street, as opposed to street, curb, gutter, sidewalk, water main, sewer main, telecommunications and the electrical…
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