Maybe politicians will begin getting a clue that voters in this country are sick and tired of getting ripped off by arrogant egotists who ignore the wishes of their constituents. Because yesterday, Mayor Carlos Alvarez, was ousted by voters angry over a property tax rate increase and salary raise for county employees in a county struggling to recover from the recession, according to the Associated Press.
With 100 percent of precinct votes counted, 88 percent voted to oust the mayor of Miami-Dade county. Having more than 2.5 million people, its the largest area ever to recall a local official. Just 12 percent of the 204,500 casting ballots were in favor of allowing Alvarez to finish his second term, which ends in 2012.
So, while the folks in DC keep on playing their budget shell games and making lots of noise while doing practically nothing to cap spending, people are casting ballots in other places, ousting incumbents.
If you add this to the situations in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio there's now plenty of handwriting on the wall showing that voters are fed up. And I for one, think that it may be too late for incumbents to scramble and try to look like they care about wasteful spending. In fact, it's likely that by now most voters realize that the biggest misuse of their hard earned tax dollars is whatever gets paid to politicians.
That's it for today folks.
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