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People rail about the increasing cost of government. The increased costs come in part due to higher costs for equipment, energy and supplies--sold from the private sector. I occasionally get into discussions with business owners who give me their "government has to live within its means" line. I respond by asking them if they've never increased their costs to their customers. Of course they have, because their costs from suppliers increase and they pass it on to their customers. But they never seem to make the connection. Some times I wonder if they would be running their business if it wasn't handed down to them from daddy or granddaddy because they sure don't have the ability or the drive to think past the end of their noses.
When yahoo governors like Rick Perry proudly cut state funding to local entities like local fire protection to where the people providing the service pay out of pocket for basic protective equipment and other things, it's time for people to wake up.
John Kasich's doing the same thing in Ohio. He's cutting funding to vital services and selling off state assets to the private sector to get a one-time infusion of money to make it look like he's balancing the budget without raising taxes. Then, he'll high-tail out of office just when the shit hits the fan from all of those short-term ideas kicking in, and his successor will get the blame. That's what happened to Ted Strickland. He was given 4 years to straighten out 16 straight years of Republican governors, 14 of which included Republicans controlling both houses of the state legislature and the elected cabinet positions. The voters, with their gnat-like attention spans, voted in Kasich, whose resume included fleecing the state out of millions from his association with Lehman Bros. And right out of the gate, he's been ramming his Wall Street/Koch Bros. agenda and people are coming to realize they really didn't want this crap.
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