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Originally Posted by billethkid
is to cut the services that directly affect the people like schools, firemen, police force, close public parks, etc.
Whan was the last time they froze ALL hiring? When was the last time the froze ALL pay increases for other than those that directly serve the people?
We all know the pet projects, the projects of the special interests and supporters do not get affected.
Do you know that in way too many cases just because a given project was a line item in the budget it remains a line item in the budget even if the project/activity was completed? It is a way of preserving their base line of money to be spent.
Until such time as ALL non essential spending is curtailed there will always be cuts at the people's level. And of course the politicians have their own definition of essential....that is anything that benefits them, their re-election or their special interests or supporters.
How do these same cities continue to build new sports arenas? Theaters? Etc.
If you were to spend the time to review....really review their budgets....what they spent last year....compared to what they are asking for this year you would find very quickly the budgets are so padded plus contingencies you might be surprised. No, I will go so far as to say you will be shocked!!!
Why is there no talk of cutting their travel and living expense accounts? Why are there no discussions of who gets cars and all the expenses paid for them? How about the trips they take to go to Chuna to see how they make baskets (sarcasm!!)? It will never happen because it affects them!!!!
The people need to stop watching the media and demand their representatives account for the revenues recieved and live within the confines of those revenues after making deductions for teachers, police, firemen, etc, etc, etc.
We the people just don't do that and the politicians count on it.
Having been personally involved with turning around businesses that were losers into profitable entities I can almost guarantee you they are NOT approaching the budgeting process from YOUR perspective. WHy would they? Nobody demands they do so. NOBODY!!!!!!!!
btk
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You are sooooooooooo right btk. Kudos and we need more of your kind of strategy to realize that cutting the budget NEEDS TO START AT THE TOP not the bottom!!!! How do we turn that around? This is a free country except it's only free to the powers-that be, unfortunately. We're so top heavily financially burdened that we, the people, will never regain our financial independence by continuing to ignore what's going on in the executive offices with their greed. The average American citizen like myself feels so helpless as to what to do. I do my homework in my choice of voting, well, that doesn't seem to help as the choices one must make are so unknown (we really don't know these candidates and certainly don't feel that their platform is real); it's like a crap shoot, huh? We don't even really vote the candidates into office which needs to be changed since it goes to a higher power to vote them into office.
Maybe the best way to turn this upsidedown is to somehow vote in the lower/middle class citizens and give up on these extremely wealthy no-good greedy politicians. Get rid of ALL of the golden fleece in office!!
I will now crawl down from my soapbox.