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Time to grow up…

Posted by Little Miss Know it All

December 20, 2006 |

littlemissknowitalld1.jpgIt’s Wednesday, and Little Miss Know it All would like to write something that would dazzle you. However, I can’t find anything worth writing about! What a blase, ho-hum kind of week its been in the world of politics. Drama at the White House–will he send more troops or not? Yawn. Is Edwards running for president, or Obama, or Hillary, or any of the avalanche of hungry Democrats jockeying for position? Bor-ing!  At this point, I don’t really care.  We just finished one grueling (yet very satisfying) election.  Give it a rest.  On and on, its the same inane stories that have been re-hashed for weeks. I think everyone must be out doing their last minute shopping!

Soooo…..Little Miss Know it All will just go on a rant.

This country needs to grow up and decide what we want to be! We are so concerned with poll numbers, appeasing everyone, giving everyone the best, rosiest forecast for their life, when its all a bunch of hooey. The truth is, we are floundering, and have been for a few decades. We don’t want to pay taxes, but we want potholes fixed, trash picked up, policemen at our neighbor’s door every time the dog barks too much. We want the best schools in the world, no lines at the DMV, super-cool high tech gadgets, and NASA to be going all over the universe.

Well, here’s a shocker–that all costs money, and lots of it. So if we don’t pay for it, who will?

Truth is, we can’t even make a decision on the most fundamental issues like road improvements and clean water, much less Social Security and the Immigration issues. We want everything for free, we want someone else to be responsible for it all, and hey, do it my way, okay?

When I was working for the Senator, I would answer constituent phone calls. If I heard it once, I heard it a thousand times…”Get Government out of my life, stop interfering in what I want to do. Oh, and there ought to be a law about…” You fill in the blank. Sometimes it was the dog next door barking, sometimes it was people driving slow in the fast lane, it never mattered, they didn’t see the error in their thinking. Of course, there were the nuts who called who thought the Senator’s office was bugged, or they couldn’t come see him because of their bionic arms would disentigrate in the metal detectors, or wait, the woman who swore the Covington police were putting drugs in her Kool-Aid…. Ah, fun days.

Wait, back to the subject. What was I ranting about?

Oh, right. Listen, its time for some hard decisions. Do we want decent schools? Then pay the teachers more, build more schools, lower class sizes, and just spend some money for goodness sake. That means property taxes, the most dreaded subject for any local elected official. Do we want safe bridges, water that doesn’t give you cancer, and air you can breathe? All of that has to be paid for. So make up your minds, and tell your congressman about it. Trust me, there’s someone waiting for your call, just thrilled to write down your every opinion.

I could also rant on the War on Terror, and how we’re funding both sides….but let’s leave that for another day.

Oh, and take some time to enjoy the holiday season. That’s an order!


Comments

3 Comments so far

  1. Max Power on December 21, 2006 8:33 am

    Sure, just like a democrat. The solution to every problem is to throw money at it.
    I’ve worked for years in gov’t myself and there is more ego kingdom building waste in gov’t then anywhere. My job in the private sector is based on making more money or saving more by efficiency. In gov’t my job is safe by convincing people I need more money/people/resources to get it done.
    BTW – loved the rant, well written.

  2. Little Miss Know it All on December 21, 2006 9:42 am

    That’s exactly the dilemma. Are we receiving enough in taxes? If so, then we need to prioritize, and stop spending money on every little pet project. Does the community really need yoga classes for free? Are there enough parks, or can we do with a few less? What’s more important–a swimming center, or safe roads? Instead, we build warm, fuzzy projects like Ice Skating rinks and Swimming pools (which do serve a very useful purpose of keeping teens off the streets), instead of taking care of our schools. Which country do we want to be? One that feels good about ourselves, or one that is a good place to live?

  3. Christopher Waldrop on January 11, 2007 2:40 pm

    I don’t think it’s fair to say that, to Democrats, the solution to every problem is to throw money about it. Republicans seem to think the only solutions to any problem is to either blow it up or outsource it to a private company that will charge taxpayers three times as much and not be held accountable for doing a crappy job. Republicans believe in throwing money too; they just flush it down a private sector toilet and call it investment. What kind of country do we want to be? I think we should stop worrying so much about the private sector, which does all that lobbying for the warm, fuzzy projects while shirking their responsibilities, and put citizens first.

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