It's time for Government reform on local, state and federal levels! The country is bankrupt! America doesn't have any money. 6/2004Federal Website, I quote "National Debt was $7,217,027,211,368.81. A working persons'share was $24,583.01. My guess it's probably one-hundred times this amount. Local andState taxes not included.Time to cut salaries on local, state, and federal level, by at least one (1) month. Cut hugesalaries, bonuses, cut out many positions, stop hiring, cut freebies, and company cars andSUV's. Taxpayers need to make sure Managers, Supervisors, and Workers work the 40 to 50hours for which they were hired. You'd think, with salaries and freebies from $5,000.00 to$20,000.00 monthly, we could at least depend on these people. WRONG! They can't betrusted! Taxpayers' suspicions have been confirmed! It takes less than an hour a day to dothe actual jobs. Hiring outside consulting & lobbying firms, paying them thousands ofTaxpayers' monies, to do what you 'so-called' managers, supervisors, and workers, werehired to do in the first place makes me know there's a problem with your arithmetic! Withloss of jobs, plant closings, wages, insurance, etc. being cut, we feel all government andelected people should be getting less in their paychecks, also. It's time to eliminate allProperty Taxes. It's obvious you people cannot handle the jobs we entrusted you with. Asfor the money going into pockets of "Pet Projects", this must be stopped! Look at ProjectHomestead, the apartments managed by a commissioner, and many more like that all in just Guilford County, NC - think about the rest of the world!While I am on a roll, do elected people, politicians, city, county and state employees paytheir 'fair' share of taxes?It's time for all Watchdog groups to start checking on all the people who are spendingTaxpayers' monies!Shirley deLongJamestown, NC336-454-5040
About the Author
Artist, Activist, and Environmentalist. Several articles published.