Commissioner Charles Glass
Glass: Commission can communicate better
Charles Glass announced his candidacy for the Lamar County commission last March and was elected early last summer.
I am not expecting any significant change from these people and voting may not be the solution required to get their attention.
The problem can't be fixed by cutting. It was caused by mismanagement over years that built up the big debt we have now. The give-aways from the county to the city, employees who do poor jobs, stealing, the declining job market, too many people on welfare, poorly rated schools, bad business attitude for small business. It all adds up.
Can't be undone by reducing taxes, can't be undone in a few years. We gotta pay for letting it all happen. This will be the new USA.
In my young years I would have said, "Fire Gretchen." Problem solved. That is not a real solution because Gretchen is a small piece of the problem, but does deserve punishment that has not been delivered and will not be pursued by current officials. (They can't, for they qualify to plead the fifth.)
Here is the way I look at problems, since I have been in the upper echelon where the big bloopers happen. Problems (problem employees, thieves, cookers of books, false details, fraternizers, political favors, sexual favors, cover ups, shredding machines, injustice in general etc.) are like ROCKS in the bottom of a lake. Businesses and Government Offices are like boats sailing on the lake. The water is profits, benefits, county safety, balanced budgets, stable taxes, county enhancements, businesses, etc, or a buffer that managers use to keep problems from hurting the businesses. When the profits are up(water) the boat (business) is floating good, safely above the problem of the rocks. BUT..........all it takes is for the water level to drop and guess what happens....the boat gets closer to problems. Then the economy takes another downturn and a little more water evaporates.
The massive dangerous rocks are on the very bottom. They are the base for the smaller rocks that have been tossed ever so effortlessly over to cover the real boulders. All of a sudden, when it is obvious that there will be no rainfall,(tax revenue) you cannot help but collide with that Gretchenstone that has landed on top of the bigger more massive rocks. YOU MUST GET THAT ROCK OUT OF THE WAY! If not, everyone will see that you are no longer sailing in smooth waters. "OUT with the Gretchenstone", says the Captain. OK. Now the little rock is gone, but the water is rippling still. The level drops a little more and another rock surfaces, it seems that the Gretchenstone may have formed a little bond with the rock on which it lay for such a long spell. I guess we must throw that stone out as well, BUT WAIT...the water level is still not rising...we will continue to hit more rocks. WE MUST CLEAN OUT THE ENTIRE BASE OF THE LAKE BEFORE WE CAN EXPECT ANY SMOOTH SAILING. OMG, WHAT CAN WE DO? BUT LOOK AT THE HORIZON .......................I can see Voting Day in the distance........perhaps smooth sailing, once again, for Lamar County.
It will mean getting all those old rocks out but boy will it be a nice day to cruise once again when we can see bottom!
Happy boating, taxpayers...you have worked hard for it. Now get ready to vote and Skip a few stones over the water. It will feel good and refreshing to know that YOU made the difference. After all you are the real Captain, it is your Boat, What is wrong with these idiots............do they have rocks in their heads???
HOW TO STOP USING ALL CAPS and still get your point across.
I think it will be a positive program that area members will be able to utilize and share with their family. Along with the program, the 4-step program of:
Quit taking everything so seriously and chill the *&^% out.
Though, since it will be a church I'll work on the name of the program to be more church friendly.
So, for all those that have problems with that horrible Caps Lock button, look forward to my simple program to help you get off to a brighter, less stressful year.
You are saying Rock Springs is a perfect place for people who are not people?
Some of the biggest ripoff artists in the world and most oppressive leaders do so under the name of God. I've seen people who never come to church at all start to show up during a campaign, but when elected they can't manage to get out of bed on Sunday. I know a contractor who has God all over his advertising and cards, prays every workday morning with his employees, and then instructs his office staff to rip off customers by billing the same materials for multiple jobs.
What we need is common sense, fairness, ability to stand up for what is right, and honesty. Going to a certain church does not make someone capable of being a leader. It doesn't even help teach them when to turn off capital locks.
Such as hiring someone to fill a vacancy?
See comment 5.2. We have too many rock problems now.
Anyone who budgets a household or runs a business knows that sooner or later the business or household will go broke if more money goes out than comes back in. The same applies to countries and counties.
In about ten years our manufacturing jobs went from 30% to 10%. Our food production is way down also.
If we look at I-pods, about 2/3 of the I-pod related jobs are overseas. The people running the show for us will tell us those Chinese I-pods support the 1/3 of jobs here, and those overseas jobs are "low paid manufacturing jobs", and we have "high paid jobs like sales and engineering". In truth sales and engineering is a few percent of the budget, and most of the engineering is in India. What we have in the USA are mostly low pay sales jobs and a few high pay management jobs.
If we look at the actual costs of an I-pod, most of the money exchanged is related to overseas manufacturing and engineering and not sales wages or engineering wages in the USA.
We are bleeding ourselves dry in jobs and money by sending it all overseas while our leaders and businesses tell us how good it is for us to do that. This is why we will not ever recover.
People who worked in manufacturing at Carters would love to have those low paying manufacturing jobs back from Mexico and China.