Budget woes...
Do you remember those old "Family Circus" cartoons? I'm recalling ones where the kids would have done something bad and Mom is asking for an explanation. Typically there's a ghost in the background with a name tag that says "Somebody."OK. So, I'm reading in today's online edition of Catoosa County News the article by Randall Franks entitled "Officials Say Public Safety Fee is a Dead Issue," about how all five commissioners now know that the fee is DOA. They've voted down the property tax increase. Yada, yada, yada...
Then towards the end of the article, you've got Bill Clark and Bobby Winters both saying that "somebody" needs to come up with ideas... "somebody" needs to see what needs to be done.
Hello! We elected SOMEBODY to be a leader in this community. We expect SOMEBODY to work towards compromise with the other elected somebodies to achieve constructive solutions. If SOMEBODY simply refuses to compromise and wants to sit there and pout because SOMEBODY is not getting his way, then SOMEBODY is part of the problem!
The most successful presidents our country has seen have been centrists. They compromised. They understood that compromise is what democracy (and life!) is about.
This "my way or the highway" attitude is not only counterproductive, but more, it's offensive.
If the best leadership that SOMEBODY can provide is to sit back and be a victim, refusing to work with his other elected officials, then SOMEBODY needs to get the h*&% out of office, because SOMEBODY is no longer leading... SOMEBODY is just whining.
We've run out of money ... and I'm not assigning any blame. But we simply don't have time to deal with ineffective and counterproductive politicians.
Look where our current SOMEBODY has taken us: from a $4 million surplus to less than $2 million (after tapping the reserve fund) and dropping.
As Carl Henson said in the article, "It's not a good trend."
How much is SOMEBODY being paid, I wonder...? Whatever it is, SOMEBODY is costing us way too much.
posted by Chris Casey @ 2:41 PM
2 Comments:
Amen, amen, amen.
Somebody in this county needs to take some financial responsibility. It is ridiculous to believe that you can offer services (police, roads, schools, etc) and nobody should pay for them. The majority of people in this county are smart enough to understand that, unfortunately it is the one's that are not that smart that are being listened to.
I hate to think what a new resident or even worse a new business that is considering relocating to Catoosa county would think in just reading the newspaper about the actions of our "leaders". We look fooloish, out of touch, and at best backward. I know that is what I would look for in a new home.
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