I voted today.
If you haven’t, you should.
I am concerned about our process, though. I walked up and just told the registrar my name, though I had my registration card and driver’s license in my hand. I had seen several before me just say their names and he simply let them sign and vote.
No id required.
*sigh*
No wonder Indianapolis has 105% of its eligible population registered to vote.
My prediction is that Oklahoma will vote Republican and Barack Obama will receive the majority of the electoral college and become president elect. That seems pretty clear to me, though I confess some anxiety over the issue.
What was not so certain is the two tax initiatives for citizens of the City of Tulsa. A few months back, Tulsa wanted to develop its riverfront area in the fashion of suburb, Jenks. The additional tax to fund the project was shot down by the voters, primarily because of the failure of the city leaders to maintain the infrastructure (mostly the streets) with the tax money it had already collected.
The cry went up and the vote came down.
So the leaders said they learned their lesson. They came up with not one plan, but two, to fix our streets. If one initiative passes, only its projects are funded, so the new slogan is, “Vote Two for Tulsa.” The promise? This time, WE PROMISE that all the tax money we raise for streets will actually make it to the streets. Really. We promise.
Ahem. You have not learned your lesson.
The solution is not that you will raise a new tax, in a floundering economy, when your people are concerned with the future, in order to provide what you promised before and have yet to deliver.
Tell you what. Reduce the size of local government and make room for the improvements from monies diverted to projects less necessary and you’ll have both the improvements and support of the citizens of Tulsa.
Sheesh! How hard is this?
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Michael
on Nov 4th, 2008
@ 4:47 pm:
Art,
You skipped a couple of steps…first we must form a committee to look into the ramifications of such a change. Then we can form a committee to research the cost and necessary steps to completing such projects. Oh…wait…we have to decide what projects should be undertaken to bring about such an outcome. Hmmmm. I wonder if the first committee can do that or if we should formalize a plan of action in a different manner? Of course you know we cannot expect these folks to donate their time for the greater good. We are going to have to reimburse them for incurred expenses as well as their time and efforts. Hmmmm. We’ll have to raise funds somehow. Those benefitting will have to pay these folks.
Hey…were we talking about secular government or church?