I am generally very quiet, unless I feel that something actually NEEDS to be said. I know that posting this on this blog isn’t going to get this to too many people, but for the ones that it does get to, I want you to take off your blinders and open your eyes to some reality, ok?
Lately I have noted, and you may have as well, that while we, the people, are not the ones controlling the uncontrolled spending by our states or government as a whole, we are sure as hell being saddled with the bill! Not only are we being saddled with the bill of their previous over spending, but they just simply aren’t learning anything and continue to overspend and continue to try to find ways to have all of us pay for it. Let me give some simple examples:
Here, in Minnesota, since the spring of 2011, the state has been spending money on a research project in which they are looking to start charging people a new “usage tax” for how much they drive. Here is the State of Minnesota’s side of things: Due to people buying more economical cars and hybrid cars, they are using less gas, and therefore, the state is collecting less money on gas tax, so they need to think about charging a “use tax” in ADDITION to the gas tax, to make up for any lost revenue that they are “losing” from people buying more economical vehicles. Does that make a lot of sense to you?? I mean, YOU spend the money to buy a more efficient vehicle to try to save YOURSELF money on fuel costs, and your state turns around and charges you an additional tax for it, so you are not only NOT saving anything, but run the very real risk of paying even more than you were before!!
Here is my questions: what is good for the goose is good for the gander, right? And, the law is made for EVERYONE, not Just-Us, right? Well, if either of these statements are true, then can someone explain a very simple law to me, and why it is only enforced when he government wants to enforce it? What law? The one that says that if you write a bad check, that you can go to jail. If you or I write a bad check for thousands of dollars, we are likely to end up in jail, or at minimum, in the courts, so why is it that State and Federal governments, who openly admit that they have no money and are in debt up to OUR eyeballs, are not being charged under the very same laws that they expect us to live by? I mean, to me, this is a logical and simple question.
For me, most of the government debt issue is actually fairly easy to overcome, and it boggles my mind that no one in politics has had the kahones to just simply do it. My guess is that they don’t want to step on anyone’s toes, and that is why it has never been done. What is it? Simple. If you have not been wearing blinders over the past 10, 20 or 30 years, then you have seen where people and entities have been “working the system” to get excess money from the government that they shouldn’t be getting. Classic examples are things like school districts that intentionally try to mark children as “special education needs” because they get additional funding from the state and/or federal government for these “special needs” kids. Problem is, many of those kids have no “special needs”. The school districts have learned that they can get millions of dollars from the state and federal government, however, if they simply claim that kids are “special”, even if they are not. Now, to me, it is by far, much cheaper for the government to make a small “task force” so-to-speak, that would go around to schools and determine if the school district is milking the government for millions each year. To pay this task force will cost FAR less than the millions that they are saving the government!! Just think, if such a “task force” was formed, and they found even 10 schools that were milking the government on this “special needs” program, the government could save millions of dollars in a matter of weeks, and then the government simply invokes a ruling that says, as you would teach a child, you did wrong, so as a punishment, you cannot get any “special needs funding” for the next 10 years”. By doing simple things such as this, do you know how much the state could save a year? and this is just a single instance of an entity milking the system. Oh, and for the record, if you don’t think this happens, last year, my son was marked by his school as a “special needs” kid, and my wife and I told the school district that they were wrong, well, as it turns out, we pulled him out of special education last year, and lo-and-behold, he is on the A-Honor Roll in the first quarter of this school year!! WoW! Really? Turns out that his special needs vanished like a fart in the wind and now he is on the honor roll! This is the kind of stuff I am talking about.
There are many instances that we, the regular people see every single day, and think to ourselves “what a waste” or “what a misuse of government money”, but no one hears these things from us, and they sure as heck don’t do anything about it, even if they do hear it. As a top government employee, like a governor, for example, I think that they should have a place for people to complain to, and more importantly, I think that the government needs to listen to those complaints and do something about them. Doing something, as it turns out, could potentially save the government millions upon million of dollars a year, so, again, why aren’t they doing it? Just seems like a DUH moment to me…if I was in charge of the state, granted i would make a lot of enemies, but the financial condition of the state would seem to change overnight once I got going….just don’t understand why other political leaders can’t do the same, since it all seems so obvious.
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