Ladies & Gentlemen of the Arkansas State Legislature:January 1, 2009
Individuals who are employed by various government entities
are assured of getting a check each week, accompanied by any number of perks,
compliments of the producers, i.e. those of us who generate the funds for their
existence.
Many if not most, have a complete disconnect, in that they
have no immediate concerns regarding the recession and ultimately the
depression we are about to enter.The
unemployment lines will continue to get longer and the conditions causing these
lines will exacerbate.
As you ladies & gentlemen enter the legislative arena,
the usual fundraising hordes will be on the attack, notably the educantists,
which brings me to the point of this missive.I will address one small area briefly; hopefully you all will get the
message—accountability.
I cite the Univ. of Arkansas at Fort Smith and Chancellor
Paul Beran. There is no public awareness of public schools and higher education’s
spending habits and justifications, only “we need more money”. All school
systems are awash in money and their areas of involvement in society needlessly
continue to expand.
In the case of UAFS and Chancellor Beran’s insatiable appetite
for global involvements is but one example.Many if not most of the students at said institution have never read the
Constitution, the Bill of Rights, could not tell you who the Constitutional
officers are or the state’s two senators, as examples.Yet Beran, with selected bureaucrats and
students, globe trots with chutzpah while fanning the flames for “globalization”(collectivism)
at enormous cost to the producers, when our state and city would be best served
by teaching students the obligations of American citizenship and its incumbent
responsibilities.As pointed out above,
he has no regard for those paying for his salary and many perks.
Another item with which I take umbrage is electronic billboards
residing in Fort Smith advertising UAFS. Students interested in college won’t
be influenced by billboards.
I am asking each of you to demand specific accountability on
these many murky expenditures, demand a cutback in personnel, i.e. assistants,
deputies, ad infinitum, and a list of the top 50 employees and their
accompanying salaries…to name a few. (This should apply across the board).
There was a time when school administrators could be
believed—those days are gone.We have
about reached the point of having to turn over our paychecks to the failed
public and higher education fiefdoms.
And finally, two more vivid examples of wholesale corruption
by government officials, past & present. You know the specifics of Lu
Hardin’s wanton pillaging of UCA. Now comes our career self-serving governor
who has appointed his old buddy Jay Bradford to head another government agency
as Insurance Commissioner, replete with a $9,000 yearly increase. This is a
blatant conflict of interest since Bradford owns an insurance agency, and to
further this outrage, Bradford’s agency does business with the state.So much for ethics and the rule of law….things
our state government is not known for. Bradford was recently Director of the “Behavioral
Sciences Division” at the Arkansas DHS.Qualifications?
Why are there not criminal investigations?Shades of “Blago”.
