The Ballad of the Absentee Ballot: You WILL Vote for it.

Nobody’s Opinion

Sitting on the desk in front of me is a flyer from my local City Council I found very in..ter..rest…ting. : In big green letters it said, :”Prop U (check) Prop S (check) August 5!

“Vote for life saving emergency services, high quality municipal services, a stable and safe city”.

They want us to vote for a 7% tax on utility use for ‘residential properties.’

Businesses, get a pass.

We have already received notice this year, that our water, waste, electric AND gas will get raise hikes very soon. The utility tax is to keep police and firemen. They are using the old fear tactic. It always works. Obama loves to use the “Social Security checks won’t go out! Veterans won’t get their paychecks!” Remember when he closed the parks during sequester, and then two days later sent billions to Egypt?

It’s all fake.

Yes, from Y2K to old ladies being pushed off cliffs by a Paul Ryan look alike,. FEAR always works.

My property tax has been raised every single year since I’ve lived here in the not-so-little town of Hazelwood, and yet, my properties value has decreased every year. Since the tax is suppose to be evaluated on the value of your property, I have never been able to figure out how they can keep rising it, but they do.

No doubt they are using Common Core math.

More about this amazing flyer later….First, the WHY we need our taxes raised:

Our new Mayor says he can’t balance the budget. You see, we used to have a huge Ford manufacturing plant here, but they moved to Mexico about 8 years ago. They raised our taxes then because of the loss, and they are still using that same old excuse as to why we need more taxes now. No doubt, they will use that excuse as long as the sun continues to shine.

The fact is, my little town of Hazelwood is no different than Detroit, or hundreds of other cities in the United States.

Sixty percent of the property tax in Hazelwood goes to fund the teachers union. HUGE administrative costs of government employees, whether fire, teachers, administrator, whatever, those pensions are breaking the city, not only here, but everywhere.

And let’s not talk about government salaries: The superintendent of the school district makes over $250,000 a year, and 400 of our students received scholarships worth over $15.3 million, and yet, the school ranks among the worst.

Go figure.

The HSD (Hazelwood School District) just got a $120 million dollars to redo the schools, and what did they do? They “lowered” some ceilings in some grade schools to make them more “energy” efficient. Added a few doors. The work they did might have added up to a million but $120? Not even close. It doesn’t matter, you can NEVER see where the money goes in America. And like all government, they make SURE they spend every single penny so as to get even more the next year.

And that’s not even the start of waste:

According to our monthly school report our schools are ‘feeding’ everybody. The principal of our local high schools said this:

“The Food 4 Thought program is comprised of food closets in three of our high schools. The program provides students who lack access to nutritious food at home with a reliable source of food for evenings, weekends and other breaks from school.”

(So, THIS is how they are going to feed the millions flooding our borders…the schools? Where the reporter on that?.)

Most of us are saying, “HEY! the State Lottery was suppose to go to the schools, the casinos money was going to schools, where the HECK IS that money going? “

Since I’ve lived here most of my life, I’ve witnessed the “change” which took decades, The poor blacks from the city were moved out to the country, on the taxpayers dime. Back in the 1950’s the whites moved from the city of St. Louis out to the suburbs. Then, slowly, the social engineers, working through the democratically elected officials, started moving the blacks from the city out to the north suburb, with Fannie and Freddie’s help. What was once mostly white neighborhoods, are now, mostly blacks.

And most of these blacks now run the schools. And teachers all have ($250,000) homes, and big salaries with big pensions. And the whites who stayed subsidized this ‘growth’ with their property taxes.

No doubt this was done in many major cities.

Now…we are subsidizing a Muslim school. My neighbors who once worked for the district said that we had to have 41 language teachers— that’s how ‘diverse” our city had become.

Is it any wonder America is bankrupt?

Am I bitter? You bet. It’s redistribution from the working class to the ‘poor’ and it’s been going on for years. And it’s not just the blacks that are acting like Obama on a sunny day, the whites are doing it too. Remember the story of the city officials in California who gave themselves salaries of $400,000?

• The truth is America is sacrificing its future to pay for its past. To keep up with burgeoning pensions, states and cities are slashing services. It’s also feeding into the unemployment problem. For decades now, local governments have doled out patronage by increasing pension benefits – these costs impact the budget years later, when the officials who gave the benefits are safely retired themselves. We’re now having to reckon with those choices.

The government has an “official” debt of $15.8 trillion and mounting. But wait, there’s more. This doesn’t include the liability from Social Security and Medicare. When you factor these in, the amount according to some, exceeds $120 trillion. With U.S. Federal tax revenue of just over $2.3 trillion, that puts our debt-to-income ratio somewhere around 5,082%.

Greed abounds. Like the sinking Titanic EVERYONE is grabbing as much as they can as fast as they can.

But, back to why this flyer pisses me off so much—-

At the bottom of my City Council flyer there were two attached absentee ballot applications to make sure you can vote. If you can’t make it to the ballot box, you just sign these little cards, tear it out, and send it in! You don’t NEED to have your ballot notarized!

“We’re also included an extra application for a friend.”

Isn’t that sweet?

So, can I have my friend from El Salvador send one in? How easy! How fun! How open to fraud is this?

And I bet nobody thinks anything of it.

YES YOU CAN….in fact anyone can vote for the much needed tax increase.

I’m sure, somewhere in the Mayor’s office, there are some extra ballots that friends will fill out on election night.

This is not, America anymore. When your local government is run by ‘progressives’ you might as well move to Texas. Where you can I’m sure, if need be, go to the local schools and get free food. Move those illegal’s out of the way when you get to the apple pie.

After all…you paid for it.

July 21, 2014 Posted by Joyanna Adams | taxes, Uncategorized | corruption, Taxes, tyranny | 1 Comment