Apr 24 2009
A Good Use of Tax Money?
Sometime in the past 8-10 years, in accordance with Federal directives, the small town I live in spent a lot of money installing handicapped curbs at the crosswalks across the street from my house. I have no objection to handicapped curbs; this is not the point. These curbs were installed according to Federal “standards” for such things. Guess what? The Feds have changed there collective minds about the “standards” for such curbs, and are now demanding that my town replace these with their “new and improved standard curbs”. This represents an example of waste at all levels of government. We have these “geniuses” who have a degree in something or other from a college or university, and get into government with no experience in real life. They sit behind desks in their job security and dream up theoretical solutions to non-existent problems. If these people did not keep coming up with new and revised regulations their jobs might be in jeopardy of becoming unnecessary. The main goal of most of these people (I won’t say all, because some are undoubtedly dedicated) is to preserve their jobs, not help the public they are supposed to be serving. A goodly percentage of our taxes are spent paying the salaries, benefits and retirement of government employees. I don’t know what the percentage is, but it’s only going to grow as our current socialist government rapidly expands the size of government.
As a side note about government employee’s salaries: I briefly worked for the government, and paid close attention to pay grades, salaries, etc. The government sets their employee’s compensation at “comparable private salaries and benefits”. The problem is, they set the compensation at the very highest level in the private sector!
Oh, I could go on with this kind of thing forever, but I’ll knock it off for this time.
