Tag: Money
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Budget VS Money – Know the difference
After you have been in office a while your staff, or your treasurer will let you know that it is time to begin considering the budget your municipally, state, county, or Homeowners Association functions under. You will learn what the revenue streams are, what the expenses are, which projects take the biggest number of resources…
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Understanding How Things Work
In all things governmental nothing is as easy as it should be. Once you have taken office the very next thing to do, I think, is to learn how things work for the government office you now hold. For instance, how is the sewer plant actually run, what are the State and Federal rules that…
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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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A very slight interruption
When making laws or other rules consider the effect on everyone. The fellow at the link below has some thought s about how the legislative stuff effects us all. http://inthetrenches-egor.blogspot.com/
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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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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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Contracts, Avoiding Being Taken To The Cleaners
After you have been in office for a few months, make some inquiries about contracts are handled by the entity that you serve. Contracts are all about doing the best with as little cash as possible, without the public’s money being squandered. The city of Portland Oregon is a good example of how not to…
Down The Sewer Pipe - Politically Speaking 