Yes, it's true! Norm will again, be back on the airways here in Cleveland,
and rest assured there are many people already cringing about this, from the
Dreaded Left and of course the Repulsive Right, and just about everybody in
between!
The only
question one must ask is, who's left for Norm to "take on"? On these
upcoming Sunday evenings you'll find out! Stay tuned - we'll be
announcing the air date and of course the Station soon!
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City of the Living Dead
In 1968, director George Romero and a small film crew working outside of Pittsburgh created the cult classic, "Night of the Living Dead." Romero should be invited to shoot a documentary about Cleveland in the year 2003. The film could be titled "City of the Living Dead."
Among the highlights of the movie would be an ever decreasing employment base, deteriorating neighborhoods that are drug-infested, a public school system that's miserable; and - on the short list - a nefarious political class that is sucking dry what little economic life remains in the city.
Unemployment will continue to grow as existing business leave the city and new employers shun the area. Employers have no incentive to establish a presence in Cleveland. We have high taxes, burdensome regulations, inflexible unions, and an uneducated workforce. Increasing unemployment will lead to a greater demand for goverment benefits, which in turn will result in even higher taxes causing further losses of employment oppurtunities. The ultimate consequences of this debilitating cycle will be a bankrupt city filled with jobless men and women seeking benefits from a goverment with a decreasing tax base.
Unfortunately, our elected officals have no incentive to resolve these problems because they are benefiting from the current system. Pointing out how bad things are, they demand increased taxes to fund goverment programs to help our city's disadvantaged. The money generated by by these taxes is then used to fund the creation and constant perpetuation of bureaucracies staffed by incompetent and overpaid goverment employees.
The bureaucracies provide just enough aid to the poor to justify their existence and demand larger budgets. The employees of these bureaucracies supply our elected officals with a dedicated group of voters and campaign workers whose own livelihood is dependent on keeping in office those politicans who support the bureaucracies - nice racket, huh?
It is not only our elected officals who benefit from this system. There is a large group of professional organizations who feed off the system: building contractors who charge inflated prices for goverment contracts, law firms who generate enormous legal fees from goverment business, consulting firms which advise the bureaucrats on topics with which the bureaucrats should already be quite familiar.
As a consequence, our so-called business and community leaders raise no outcry against the current political system. Why should they?
How can these problems be solved? Only by convincing ordinary citizens that the politicans that they repeatdly elect are not working in their best interest. This is an enormously difficult task when a large percentage of the electorate is dependent on goverment handouts for their very existence! Perhaps it's already much too late.
For those of us who recoginize the vast problems, the course of action is clear:
- Stop voting for tax increases that take our money out of the pockets of working citizens to benefit the political elite.
- Demand accountability from all goverment agencies to provide an audited financial statements, identifying just how our tax dollars is being spent. I know this will be extremely difficult to accomplish, if at all.
- Demand the elimination of the public employee retirement system. The reasons are obvious!
- Understand that those that seek political office must abide by the oath they took to represent We, The People.
The proper role of Goverment is a limited one, defined by our Constitution!
