A s the important mid-term election approaches, desperate power-crazed politicians seeking re-election resort to their same pathetic tricks to give the economy an artificial stimulus and make us feel better so we will be conned into voting again for them.
The most obvious examples are the various highly visible road-related projects, including resurfacing that is years overdue, new signs and replacement of drainage lines.
Various power line projects along Route 9 are also in full swing now. Yes, these are private company projects, so I can’t be sure if the timing is intentionally geared to the election or just coincidental.
Even though governments are controlled by corporations, I suspect there is a tit-fortat arrangement where governments offer private companies some kind of incentive — namely, financial — to time their projects as elections approach.
Elected positions were never intended to be lifelong “jobs.” Let career politicians know you are wise to their predictable, insulting nonsense by voting against all incumbents who have held office for two terms.
Even if they have done something special on your behalf, you have to look at the bigger picture: Government has become so complex and draconian that its own regular employees cannot deal with the complexity created by elected politicians and the bureaucrats who write the regulations to carry out the intent of the various statutes. Raymond Kostanty Manalapan