To the Editor:
State of Ohio operating budget: $50 billion biennially. 2011-2012 budget is projected to be short $7-$8 billion with anticipated overages. Short $10 billion, it is one-fifth of said budget: an arm.
Expect more pleas for public funding.
Only the pampered comment: “But 4-H is only $17.50 per $100,000.” Add to the $17.50, $12 for MWCD and it’s nearly $30. Add the Sheriff’s levy, a fire levy and it could total $100. Add Ohio Constitution Servicement tax (November), a few more needs – exorbitant costs escalate toward $300.
The 1990 Census said 65 percent of Carroll County commutes to Stark for work, 15 percent to Tuscarawas and five percent to Summit. The 2009 highway counts show a different traffic pattern with more traffic driving towards Tuscarawas. You fellow citizens (85 percent) commute. Budgets jumped from $50 to $200 per month when gasoline spiked to $3 per gallon due to war.
Mandated insurance impugns business that hire part time to avoid paying those benefits they can’t afford creating higher job loss and severe deficits. Uninsured jobs, at least, kept jobs and paychecks.
In Carroll County, more citizens are elderly and retired. There is less economic growth here. You raise your children and send them elsewhere to benefit those local tax coffers, not yours.
Political job creation is rhetoric. No government position creates jobs (municipaliies are more concerned with taxes, only market to attract diverse base). State, federal promises mean an intent to create special interest jobs. Translation – you work to pay those governments to create a job that 99 percent of you will never be able to apply for. (These jobs are technical like the First Frontier, with no guarantee of productive results.)
Most legislators have never been on fixed budgets. Therefore, they think hypothetical works. Example: Tax and return at a higher interest rate, which is called stimulus. 4-H is a fine organization. So are many organizations. What’s next? Football? Baseball? Summer youth camps?
4-H information can be gleaned online. Your local library is free, albeit operating on reduced budget hours. Expect reduced hours again.
Every paper shows farms chopped into smaller acreage and rusted tractors for auction. In procreation, with six billion people, we lose acreage to grow food. The family farm will be an art. The future is corporate farms and the corporation will teach workers their job.
Government, functioning by relevancy, sustains.
When emotions rule, recessions happen. True of the current recession, caused by war. No proof a poor, barren country, dependent on food-for-oil money took aim at the U.S. Individuals perhaps. This analogy would attack Illinois for the Chicago mafia.
At genocides, you yawn. Darfur. Rwanda. Congo. Such pettified priorities lose worlds.
Federalist 51 foreshadowed fractionalization: “…keeping power within due bonds: …Reason, exercised freely and coolly, inevitably falls into different opinions. Governed by a common passion, opinions will be the same…”
The United States loses because parties, special interest and organizations promote belief over equality.
Ann Yeager
Harlem Springs
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