Hello Ward 3, and the rest of Westfield. There is so much going on; where to begin… Can I say, without any disagreement, that I am really sick of all the divisiveness? Let’s start locally. Our City Council went through the budget process, and those who complain the most, according to the records, did not offer up cuts in the various budget requests that went before them. One offered a2.5% cut across the board, this included police, fire, and education but when asked about these; no not them. You cannot have across the board cuts and leave depts. out. OK, back to government 101. We have a diversity of functions dependent upon revenue. No one likes more taxes, but reality time…costs everywhere do not go down. A good thing is that we have a diversity of operating principles re-presented on the Council that should merge their expertise in their principles to come up with solutions, and not just support or oppose. Especially without providing an alternative. While our move adversarial social culture is exciting and you get to vent; but it does not accomplish anything other than strife, and conflict. This is not the Wide World of Wrestling. We have; they have responsibilities to make our world more positive, and productive through being constructive. CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROBLEM SOLVING! If you are too emotionally connected to you ideology and it’s slogans that does not help us. That feels better…
Fundamental to our success is that we can cooperate and negotiate, that is compromise. We may not like those words, but any with a family, has a job, lives in our world knows that we must all compromise at some time. Sure we would like everything to be automatic, effortless, and not cost. But, we are not in any fantasy utopia; we are in the real world or completion and conflicting social economic (political) interests. And because your ego thinks you are right, or at least can’t be wrong, NO ONE IS PERFECT. And, do you and yours want, then, to be totally responsible for the world we are in? OK no taxes then how do we have all that we have? How does that world work? I forgot who, at the moment, said “taxes are the price we pay for a civil society.”
While on that point: it is noticeable that too many are working too hard at creating conflicts that are not just dividing America, and pitting us against each other but they are fracturing America. We are de-evolving into a Pro-Kill, Pro-Fear, country where is moral to hate. I think a lot of folks need to give up their moral high ground, for they do not practice what they preach: to love one another, including your enemies, blessed be the peacemakers, the meek and the humble, and of course: forgiveness, etc. OK, I have vented enough for now. More to come? Hopefully I will see some of you at Tiger’s Pride, soon to open…
Thank you for listening…your former Ward 3 City Councilor, Brian Hoose… [email protected]
