Hello Westfield, especially, Ward 3; Hi folks…I hope you had a good and a safe 4th. This is a great time to reminisce about the true history, and principles or our nation; read the Declaration of Independence and refresh your memory with a perusal of the Constitution. Especially in that it I be taken apart for people’s personal egos, and power. So may praised all those who sacrificed for our nation, and the near sacred documents and thinking that enable us to become a nation, then go out and violate those principles. I don’t think that they should be able to plead ignorance, so it must be an intentional myth and misuse.
Ok, I am still reflecting on my previous editorial. But, as promised let us look at our City Council’s last meeting re: Budget. As previously said, people title themselves with political terms and then, what they do have little to do with what those terms really mean. Please note comments above re: myth use. Hoping that you won’t know the difference? Maybe, to borrow from POGO: we have found the enemy, and he is us; and what we claim to know, but do not. Just trusting on others who sound like they know to be right.
OK, the budget…claims to “saving the tax payer;” there is more to government than cutting the budget. A bigger part of governing is provide for the needs and interests of the community. Remember that the first governments were family councils trying to work out what was vital to the whole family, and not just the few. With coming of limited government 1,000’s of years later, the interests of the many was excluded. OK, they wanted to cut Police, Fire, and Education to just name a few. Really? This is the 21st Century, and the private sector proving for many if not most of our necessities, and they don’t cut prices out of patriotism. Add on that our Council has done a lot to discourage new businesses, and drag their unimaginative thinking when it comes to taking advantage of the real world changes going on around us. Is it no wonder that the only old dog and pony show they have left are “cut Taxes,” and our roads are terrible? Well, if we had on-going investment in our infrastructure we would not have such a problem. I think that many on the Council are good people, and do not want to burden the tax payers; but they have a greater obligation to the wellbeing and future of Westfield. You want a residential based community then the property tax is the only way to pay for things. But, here too the thinking is muddled: the property tax was created as one’s home was one’s place of business. Back in 1800 80-90% of Americans owned their own business and it was in their home. 100 years later when they brought over cheap Industrial labor from Europe; that changed.
The one big failure was to adapt our means of generating revenue to meet the costs. The Fed created the 1% Income Tax on the top 1% so as to pay for the installation of things like the newly created uses for electricity as: the telephone, radio, refrigeration, lights, etc. Now we are undergoing similar changes due to newly created uses as: cyber technology, computers, and all the other devices. As such the costs for police, fire, healthcare, and especially education must be accounted for in the uses of our revenue. BUT, archaic thinking about how we do things and have always done things is leaving us with unnecessary conflicts. Remember the old cliché: that the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same things over and over again and still not have it work. Unfortunately too many have been con jobbed into believing myths, and falsehood about our history, and our unique principles and practices. You know what lives in the past: dead things. The living is for the here and now. There are things that we can do to pay for things without wreaking havoc. But, we have to take serious our CITIZEN RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHEORITY, and to fact educated and informed. And, not just from the self-serving MEISTS, and the Existential Nihilists that have effective tricked the general population into surrendering so that they can dominate. You know them: one faction will take care of you, and the other will do it for you. Stop it we are Americans who need to return to being New World Americans.
Last point, we have elections coming up: take out papers you need 50 legit signatures…or PAY ATTENTION; be an American, participate that is what Americans do… Your former Ward 3 City Councilor, Brian Hoose, [email protected].
