With elections upon us, and platform positions being presented to us by candidates seeking our vote, be assured most candidates will be claiming to be fiscally responsible. When they do, ask them what they think of the below, a post I did on Next-Door.
" Fiscal responsibility? Transparency? How about, starting with SPENDING. . . TRANSPARENCY in spending. . . spending that's accounted for in budgets that are UNDERSTANDABLE - understandable so that the merits of the spending can be judged SIMPLY - in terms of common sense, principles of fairness, and values:
self-reliance, "a fair day's pay for a fair day's work", accountability, respect for other people's money, helping the truly needy but not the greedy, etc etc etc . . .
For example, with gov't payroll, that's such a huge part of the spending budget . . . gov't worker COMPENSATION - TOTAL compensation - total compensation to include BENEFITS the value of which are QUANTIFIED - quantified in DOLLARS :
are not taxpayers funding this compensation - these compensation "PACKAGES" - entitled to know - UNDERSTAND - these packages' value?
Taxpayers WITHOUT such packages, who toil without benefits like pensions, 401ks, health insurance, life insurance, bountiful vacation days, personal days, sick days, holidays, etc etc etc. - in jobs with NO virtual life-time job security - I would say are DEFINITELY entitled to know these packages' value. They are entitled, and the contractors and small businessmen, in the same boat, are entitled - folk whose present contract and present year, respectively, may, often enough, be their LAST.
Can one know if a pay-hike is deserved, if one doesn't know what the pay already IS ? "
It's cheaper to live in a rural area ???? Where???? The Florida panhandle bases it's rents on the military housing pay. They always cater to them. I have not seen rent in Okaloosa county less than $1000 a month for a house since the 90s. It's now $2000 in the North Florida. So you'd have to make $40 a hour to pay that. It's not cheaper to live anywhere in Florida.
In fact, many restaurants are using J1s because well - they make so much money here and then go home and live well in their home country. Why not pay Americans to live in Florida full time.
We should have a tax on tourists so that we have a minimum income to live here year around. It would be better for all businesses because they would have to train workers each season.
It doesn't hurt lower income areas to have a minimum wage in Florida. Robert Riech bunks that myth.
They don't want us to have housing or anything. Public education has been destroyed in Florida
Read White Trash by Nancy Isenberg . We were founded by the poor English aristocracy not freedom from religion or taxes. We were "white trash pawns" for the new elite class
We the people should be influencing public policy. We have to show up first.
The best argument for a 32 hour work week is so we can show up for democracy.
Please interview other people and I have a request - housing issues - William Bill Black , PhD, lawyer, bank regulator - The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One. He's been on Bill Moyer, lectured at Harvard etc.
With elections upon us, and platform positions being presented to us by candidates seeking our vote, be assured most candidates will be claiming to be fiscally responsible. When they do, ask them what they think of the below, a post I did on Next-Door.
" Fiscal responsibility? Transparency? How about, starting with SPENDING. . . TRANSPARENCY in spending. . . spending that's accounted for in budgets that are UNDERSTANDABLE - understandable so that the merits of the spending can be judged SIMPLY - in terms of common sense, principles of fairness, and values:
self-reliance, "a fair day's pay for a fair day's work", accountability, respect for other people's money, helping the truly needy but not the greedy, etc etc etc . . .
For example, with gov't payroll, that's such a huge part of the spending budget . . . gov't worker COMPENSATION - TOTAL compensation - total compensation to include BENEFITS the value of which are QUANTIFIED - quantified in DOLLARS :
are not taxpayers funding this compensation - these compensation "PACKAGES" - entitled to know - UNDERSTAND - these packages' value?
Taxpayers WITHOUT such packages, who toil without benefits like pensions, 401ks, health insurance, life insurance, bountiful vacation days, personal days, sick days, holidays, etc etc etc. - in jobs with NO virtual life-time job security - I would say are DEFINITELY entitled to know these packages' value. They are entitled, and the contractors and small businessmen, in the same boat, are entitled - folk whose present contract and present year, respectively, may, often enough, be their LAST.
Can one know if a pay-hike is deserved, if one doesn't know what the pay already IS ? "
It's cheaper to live in a rural area ???? Where???? The Florida panhandle bases it's rents on the military housing pay. They always cater to them. I have not seen rent in Okaloosa county less than $1000 a month for a house since the 90s. It's now $2000 in the North Florida. So you'd have to make $40 a hour to pay that. It's not cheaper to live anywhere in Florida.
In fact, many restaurants are using J1s because well - they make so much money here and then go home and live well in their home country. Why not pay Americans to live in Florida full time.
We should have a tax on tourists so that we have a minimum income to live here year around. It would be better for all businesses because they would have to train workers each season.
It doesn't hurt lower income areas to have a minimum wage in Florida. Robert Riech bunks that myth.
Project 2025 - we are the frogs in the pot.
They don't want us to have housing or anything. Public education has been destroyed in Florida
Read White Trash by Nancy Isenberg . We were founded by the poor English aristocracy not freedom from religion or taxes. We were "white trash pawns" for the new elite class
We the people should be influencing public policy. We have to show up first.
The best argument for a 32 hour work week is so we can show up for democracy.
Please interview other people and I have a request - housing issues - William Bill Black , PhD, lawyer, bank regulator - The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One. He's been on Bill Moyer, lectured at Harvard etc.