Gnarlyoak,Derek: Our local, county,state, and federal or national governments run like
this. The local or city/town government generally has a budget to work with every physical year to take care of day to day opperations such as Fire, Police, and ambulance services. These funds are collected and in most cases are required to only run or operate with the monies available. Most local, county and State governments at least here in Florida are required to have a blanced budget in order to function. With the down turn of the National economy starting in 2007 under GWB 43 forward to the present tenant of 1600 Pennsilvania Ave. I have seen the near
utter destruction and nationalization of at least 6 private sectorindustries in this country. Unlike local, county and some but not all state budgets that have to live within their means the Federal or National government, at least the present one in power
has knowingly choose to continue to print and digitized the US
currency nearly into oblivion. The desire to continue to do this
beyond the point of no return or recovery is staggering, to say the
least. For my local county situation I am presently paying roughly
1/2 of what I was paying say 4 years ago in property taxes.
This is mainly due to the collapse of the housing and construction industry in this state. Funding is down across the board and all levels excluding the federal level., since they think
they can print currency with no regards to the short term results. The long term results are for another discussion. I am very fortunate to live where I do and living
within my means has been my way of life and doing business since I first
started work.
Alas this is not the case with many other of my country men/women that
have chosent the dependency route. It has not gotten so bad in my state
where the private sector has had to come in and help the local governments, but in some cases it is better and less costly than depending on the government employees to accomplish the same task.
The folks that want another bucket of chicken or another hamburger will always complain and moan about this or that.
They are this countries biggest looses and work very hard to game the system to their own needs 24/7 365 x multiple generations.
Hope this answered some of your thoughts from the other side of
the pond.
easy-lift guy