“I tell every city official I meet: Your main job is not to supply jobs — it’s to serve taxpayers,” Porter said.”
Practically every politician has exactly the opposite opinion. You NEVER hear of a county, state, or federal employee getting laid off, no matter how little work there is for them
I can’t believe that this guy hasn’t been disappeared or Arkanasied yet!
I wonder what Obama has in store for those people. Between the IRS, the NSA, the BATFE, the EPA and a hundred other agencies, I’m sure he can bring some kind of hurt down upon them. For their own good, of course.
And when you do it, don’t allow any revenues to go elsewhere, and don’t allow crooks access. Mayor Daley spent 40 years of meter/parking contract money in just two years in Chicago.
this is the model of the future, the question is what has to happen before things collapse to the point where it is considered. People banded together and formed communities and agree to pay taxes to support common needs, but that model badly needs to be re-invented. Police and Fire protection are the core public services that in my mind should not be outsourced (even though they could be). Everything else can be put out for competitive bids, and let the market determine what it costs and is worth.
Why is it that any form of government “services” immediately, unilaterally and irrevocably means union, sky high benefits, inefficiency, waste, fraud, abuse and low or no value to the taxpayer?
I live immediately next door and have watch things improve nicely over time since Sandy Springs’ incorporation.
Sandy Springs’s first mayor, Eva Galambos, is a class act who gets it and who set things off in the right direction, and they don’t seem to have strayed far from her path.
Here in Dunwoody, we’re having some issues with elected officials who don’t gets it. We’re working on changing that.
I’m going to ping the GA list to this, since it’s a nice article about Sandy Springs and the success of a small, limited local government in general.
Just another of the seemingly non-stop outbursts of racial hatred from Republicans toward the Black Man in the White House(TM).
But there is incentive for the companies because if they screw up, we can use someone else. That doesn’t happen in government.”
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Exactly.
The unions will not want to hear about such a successful plan.
All public employee unions should be outlawed—at the local, state and federal levels.