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I’m Casting the FIRST” NO CONFIDENCE VOTE” for our County Leaders

I listened to last week County Council Meeting over the Internet because I was to Sick and could not attend , to voice my concerns about the Budget and our Tax’s, By the time the meeting was over I was not only sick but MAD as hick.

I heard James Dinneen repeatedly say the budget had been cut to the bone and could not Be cut anymore and then to hear some of the Council members tell him what a great job He has done with the Budget, sent me off the Deep end. This was NOTHING MORE THAN A DOG & PONY SHOW, the County Council and staff have known for almost 2 years than we were heading for a Down Turn in the economy and they failed all the Tax payers with their reckless spending and failing to listening to all the warning signs. They Doubled the Salaries of the Council, they cried the blues when the other County Employees wanted a raise and then gave all the upper over paid Managers a 3% raise. Had James Dinneen been a TRUE LEADER he would have said NO to the 3% raises for the upper over paid Management including himself. It is time to FREEZE all PAY RAISES for any employee Who make over 100, 000 a year. They are already overpaid !!!

If the County is in such Bad shape that it needs to raise TAX”S why are they still spending money like they own the BANK?? Why did they pay an extra 50,000 tax dollars for insurance for the County, when they could have saved the TAX PAYER’S

That money, Why did they approve 430,000 for Art Work to hang on the walls of the OCEAN CENTER when they could have had Artist loan their work for 6-12 months for free, Why are County Vehicle still being driven home every night?? Why does the County need so many full size Pick-ups & SUV’s ?? Why are we paying for all the cell phones??

It wasn’t to long ago there were NO CELL PHONES, how did we every make from point A to point B without talking all the way home?? Folks look around at your TAX DOLLARS being wasted !! If other states can us VW Jetta’s for Police Cars for their State Troopers, why do we need all these Large Gas Guzzlers ?? Why does our Sheriff need a Full size SUV ?? Why can’t most of the County Vehicles be 4 or 6 cylinders ?? They also come in 4 wheel drive.. Why does every County Vehicle need a NEW Light bars at 2,500 to 3,000 each?? The old ones worked just fine. Why did all the TV’s need to be replaced with flat screen TV’S??? Why is their a new LCD monitor hooked to every Computer??? Why does the Sheriff’s Dept own a Tank that just sits in a field?? Are we waiting for a war??? How much did it cost and how much does it cost to sit there??? WHY????

Our County get Millions of Federal Tax Dollars from HOMELAND SECURITY to protect us from TERRORIST and our County government buys TOYS with this money Instead of protecting us from the Terrorist?? I’m talking about the illegal’s , that we as TAX PAYERS have to support with Food Stamps, Housing, Free Medical, Free Education, Jobs, while we struggle to support our family’s.. Use that money to round them up and DEPORT them. We don’t force kids to learn Russian, German, Italian or the many other languages spoken in this County, but we force our kids to learn SPANISH. I have lived all over the world and always had to learn the language of the land I lived in, Nobody printed things in ENGLISH so I could read it. Why should they learn ENGLISH we make to easy for them and again we pick up the tab. Why does the County waste our Tax Dollars going after people and groups who Rescue animals at no charge to the Tax payers and let the illegal’s raise chickens & pigs in residential areas without anything being said??? Why is this money not spent going after illegal BLEEP & dog fighting rings?? The Latin gangs? the Latin Drug dealers? if they are not legal they only have one right and that is to LEAVE !!!!

GET YOUR PRIORITY”S STRAIGHT !!!

The County spends Millions during floods, when they allowed there good old boy builders, to build in every low spot & dried up lake bed around just to get that all mighty tax Dollar, seems they never have the time or money to do things right the first time, But we have lots of Tax’s dollars to go back and redo them. Require Homes to be Built 3-4 ft above the road and not in dried up lake beds, make the builder put in Drainage or don’t allow them to build these sub-divisions, its time to make the Builders pay and not the Tax payers…

It’s time for our LEADERS in VOLUSIA COUNTY to wake up and run the County as a Business with some Common Sense or for them to be FIRED!! And put a person in office with some common sense. I strongly urge you to take off of work on the Sept 18, 2008 and attend the Council meeting and speak your peace about how their reckless spending effects you & your family… And again REMIND THEM they WORK FOR US and if they would like to stay employed they need to learn to spend our MONEY with Caution, REMIND them property Values dropped by 38%, Remind them many Fine People are losing there Jobs, Homes and Everything they own and their GREED and RECKLESS SPENDING needs to end YESTERDAY !!!!! And when they say they will cut our POLICE & FIRE remind them its in our BEST INTEREST to CUT THE UPPER MANAGEMENT in this COUNTY !!!!!! We can save a lot more money !!!! We need the Indians, there are always to many CHIEF’S !!!!!!!!!