Now that the budget vote is over, I lost, as usual, my work to complete the layout package must continue, I had not the chance to work on the revenues nor capital expenditures or complete all the departments packages. It now moves to my part time schedule which is growing larger by the minute.

You ask why should I continue something that the remaining board members do not want to see or participate in. Because it is the right thing to do and second all through the year budgets can be amended, given the right evidence.

The numbers make Joseph Farrell's head swim. Billions and trillions of dollars, numbers too immense to comprehend. But the central message, delivered by a band of Washington budget experts traveling the country to raise an alarm about the nation's financial picture, hits him like a whack on the head.

"I knew there was a problem, but I didn't realize it was this bad," Farrell, 25, marveled after a recent presentation at the University of South Florida, from which he is to graduate in August. "I didn't realize there was no solution in sight. My taxes are going to be huge."

Porker of the Month is a dubious honor given to lawmakers, government officials, and political candidates who have shown a blatant disregard for the interests of taxpayers.

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named all 18 members of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Porkers of the Month for rejecting every credible proposal for reform of farm subsidy programs, and instead unanimously voting to extend the current archaic, costly, and wasteful system.

This morning I received an article from a friend that reminds me that the term political expediency still exists. Basically that means that if you, if you were chief, whether you are the mayor of a small city, governor of a midsized state, or even president of a country that is supposed to be a republic in legislative form, you can, if need be, bounce over the common rules of procedure to accomplish what you need.

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