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The Business of Life
By Joe Cadrain, Winsted
The Christmas season will soon be over and the year 2001 will become old news. We have made our New Year resolutions and most of us are trying to get back to where we think normal is. While we ponder normal, reality steps in, and here we are involved in the business of life, today and now.
We begin to take notice of something different in the air—gone are the messages of Christmas and the New Year. We begin to hear and/or read how wonderful our local, state and federal governments are doing and what they are planing for us in the future. It appears that out of nowhere the bomb of the upcoming budget season is telling us we need to be alert.
Government unions have tremendous power over the people because their voting power and wealth grows every year. When these unions cannot get what they want at the local level, they bring money with a voting block to our state capitol, where mandates become law. This same plan sometimes escalates to the federal level with the same results. The leaders of those who work in the comfort of the government have begun their campaigns to convince the public that their new budgets deserve approval, because our families and community will suffer if their requests are not met.
Those who question increases in monies, accountability, the need for requested increases in personnel, salaries or benefits, or new programs are referred to as being negative, anti-education, naysayers, and/or other derogatory terms of disrespect. The truth is that most of those who speak out in opposition to what they consider poor judgement are more concerned about kids and moving the community forward than the bureaucrats are.
Have a nice day.
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