Beyond The Voting – The Work Of Government Reform Will Still Need Our Attention
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Early voting has started in Nevada with the ability for those who want to get a head start having the chance to cast their 2010 election ballots in advance of the November 2, 2010 election day rush.
Ideally, there will be enough of a backlash at the ballot box to bring “religion” to those who might survive voters ire…simply believing that there will be a clean sweep isn’t a very realistic point of view. There are many of our fellow citizens who actually think there should be more government and who rather enjoy receiving the money that is being redistributed to them and their causes.
Regardless of the outcome of the election (and there is lots of hope that the 2010 election will sweep out the majority of those who have taken our government to places it ought not be – local, state and nationally) the work will need to continue of cleaning up the mess we’re in and replacing the failed approaches those currently in control have given us.
Which brings us to the point of looking ahead -- and the work that will need to take place, particularly in the Nevada 2011 Legislature. It is essential that we come out of the session with the details worked out and enacted to fix the broken process that we have for deciding how state spending is planned and authorized. Not having the ability to do a better job of offering the background or the specifics than my friend at the Nevada Policy Research Institute – Geoffrey Lawrence – I encourage you to click on this link and read his commentary piece on the Nevada budget dilemma.
This correction isn’t really a partisan issue – there are going to be forces on both sides of the political isle who will toil to prevent reform of the budget process (and those who will be doing this aren’t exactly insignificant players – they actually are the ones who are directly in control and like it that way). It will require a massive influx of citizen involvement, e-mails, letters, phone calls and personal visits with those who are supposed to represent us to convince those we’ve elected to make this action a priority that they accomplish.
Early voting has started in Nevada with the ability for those who want to get a head start having the chance to cast their 2010 election ballots in advance of the November 2, 2010 election day rush.
Ideally, there will be enough of a backlash at the ballot box to bring “religion” to those who might survive voters ire…simply believing that there will be a clean sweep isn’t a very realistic point of view. There are many of our fellow citizens who actually think there should be more government and who rather enjoy receiving the money that is being redistributed to them and their causes.
Regardless of the outcome of the election (and there is lots of hope that the 2010 election will sweep out the majority of those who have taken our government to places it ought not be – local, state and nationally) the work will need to continue of cleaning up the mess we’re in and replacing the failed approaches those currently in control have given us.
Which brings us to the point of looking ahead -- and the work that will need to take place, particularly in the Nevada 2011 Legislature. It is essential that we come out of the session with the details worked out and enacted to fix the broken process that we have for deciding how state spending is planned and authorized. Not having the ability to do a better job of offering the background or the specifics than my friend at the Nevada Policy Research Institute – Geoffrey Lawrence – I encourage you to click on this link and read his commentary piece on the Nevada budget dilemma.
This correction isn’t really a partisan issue – there are going to be forces on both sides of the political isle who will toil to prevent reform of the budget process (and those who will be doing this aren’t exactly insignificant players – they actually are the ones who are directly in control and like it that way). It will require a massive influx of citizen involvement, e-mails, letters, phone calls and personal visits with those who are supposed to represent us to convince those we’ve elected to make this action a priority that they accomplish.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 10/16/2010 6:16 AM 
Categories: 2010 Elections
Tags: Nevada Budget State Spending Taxes 2010 Election Government
Categories: 2010 Elections
Tags: Nevada Budget State Spending Taxes 2010 Election Government
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