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Some Truth About Elections in the USA
The United States of America is very proud of the election process that we have in place and have had in place for about 200 years. We revel in this process, and become more than indignant if anyone says that the elections were not correct, tampered with, forced, or somehow not on the up and…
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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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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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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…
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What Not To Outsource
When talking about the economy (as it applies to government spending) there needs to be a discussion about keeping the water, road, sewer, and the solid waste departments in house. The advantage is not so much in money and not spending, as it is about control. Once the government that you serve gets rid of…
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Accounting For The Publics Money.
Of all the things that government does spending money wisely, is the single thing it does the least well of all. Contracts that grow mysteriously larger after they have been signed, costing thousands of tax dollars to be spent, is all to common. As an elected official you should drive to be accountable for every…
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Unions And The Public Work Force
One of the many areas that cities and towns all across America have lost control is the public workforce. Unions in the United States of America, originally, were designed to curb the abuses of the owners of industry, and of businesses. These days, unions also control a vast about of the public sector. The blame…
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Hidden Agendas
The numbers of public officials, elected and otherwise, that have portrayed themselves as middle of the road or conservative, are many. The greater numbers of these people have hidden agendas. That is to say they will tell you one thing while really wanting to do another Presidents are not immune to this sort of thing,…
Down The Sewer Pipe - Politically Speaking 