Often
citizens get highly frustrated at the seemingly abuses of those they pay to
administrate their government. Not to
mention the feelings of employees especially in the public sector. The employee’s feelings run RED with anger,
frustration, and confusion (which leads to low morale) when it comes to holding
those who are charged with the care of our government and their job
accountable. The many frustrations are rooted in the inability to effectuate a
change in the behavior of those in the “in charge” ranks of government. In this brief article I am attempting to
bring some very basic understanding with the intent of decreasing the many ill
feelings we often feel as a result of runaway government. There is definitely a critical aspect to
this game that we often overlook, underestimate, or choose to ignore. We blame Unions, each other, and sadly enough
take these frustrations into our homes.
Well as the saying goes if it looks like a duck, quack like a duck, then
more than likely it is a duck.
Somehow in
my life I ended sitting a many different tables. The one thing that is missing from those
tables is the people, the everyday citizen, worker, laborer, mother, father
etc. Certain decision has nothing to do
with the “efficient service delivery to the people”. For the most part that line is just some
political talk that sounds good. The “in charge” people exist mainly for the
orderly distribution of tax dollars and resources to private interest of
influence the real shot callers.
As an employee (true life example) have you ever wondered why those “in
charge” will totally revamp an entire operation just to satisfy a request of a
special interest? In Washington, D.C.
for example on any given day that the Washington Nationals (our baseball team)
play at Nationals Stadium (that D.C. gave away for free) the government will
redirect a great deal of its resources to help people cross the street. Now ask yourself how does helping people
across the street resolve the issue of unemployment, affordable housing, crime
and poverty? If you said it doesn’t then
you win the prize! This is a prime
example of the puppet existing for the sole reason of orderly distribution of
money and resources to private interest.
To be truthful there are many “in charge” folks that have the good of
the people in their heart. They tend to
be a valuable source of insight for me, however that insight is usually given
under the cover of darkness for fear of being seen with me which may cost them
their jobs. Overall though those that
are “in charge” are accountable to those who donate vast sums of money to
political campaigns, developers who throw large sums of gifts and money, and land
owners of the “old school” type.
In
conclusion, it is imperative that the common citizen and worker understand,
accept and act according to this first basic fact of today’s politics. Those we have elected in positions of
responsibility can care less about the common citizen or its employees. They exist for one reason only as a means to
distribute your money and resources to
private interest. Maybe if we all pooled
our money together and buy a golf trip or something for those “in charge”, maybe
we can get 10 minutes of their time.
However, if you actually want one of those folks that are “in charge” to
actually do something that benefits the taxpayer or employee we got to do much
more than a golf trip. Look up the donor
list to your council member, mayor or any other elected official and what I am
presenting here will quickly become painfully obvious.
More to come
in Part 2 of this topic. .
