Political Class Dismissed
June 9th, 2009 by Bill ColleyJim Ostrowski is the son of a State Supreme Court Judge from Buffalo, NY. A few year’s ago Jim fanned a taxpayer revolt similar to California’s Proposition 13. He has authored a book, Political Class Dismissed, and he has a website: www.politicalclassdismissed.com.
After learning his State Senate had been seized through Parliamentary procedure by Republicans he posted these thoughts. I’ve had to clean up some language. Some of his points apply anywhere:
Here’s a true reform agenda for them, free of charge.
1. Make gerrymandering illegal. If you even think about creating a bipartisan committee to do it, I will puke. Just mandate that the districts be geometrically compact and allow any citizen to sue to keep you b******s honest.
2. Abolish all forms of corporate welfare, subsidies grants, loans, enterprise zones. It’s all bull*** to give politicians power to extract donations from business people.
3. Merge all school districts into the local towns; the town council becomes the board, no more dumb special elections where no one votes.
4. Abolish all authorities and special districts. Merge into local government or privatize or, as with IDAs, just abolish, period.
5. Equalize private and public sector pay and benefits.
6. Eliminate all pensions for any elected official.
7. Eliminate all the well-known pension scams such as the using overtime to inflate the “high-three.”
8. Abolish all Medicaid extras not required by federal law and cap spending until we spend the average of other states.
9. Hire the Ohio and PA budget directors for a million each so they can tell us why they spend 68 cents to the NY dollar on state and local government.
10. Finally, just to show you are not cruel, heartless b******s who would take medicine from sick people, legalize medical marijuana. Wait till you have to watch your friend in the ER puking their guts out!