Throw it away, all of it

Anyone who has run a business, or even participated in a business, knows that money is not the solution to every problem. Lets just call our worker Tom to simplify it. Tom is an average unmotivated worker. He isn't a MENSA member by any stretch of your imagination, and he makes a fair share of mistakes costing a fair amount of resources and time to fix your mistake.

Now let us say that Tom makes $10 per hour. If I gave Tom $20 per hour, would this increase his productivity two times? It is possible. What if I threw $50 an hour at him? Would I see five times as much product in return? Let's rev it up to $1,000 per hour and see the return we get.

The point is that money being thrown into any given situation doesn't really mean it is going to improve it. Take what happened under the Ventura administration. They opened up funding to public schools in the hopes that it would lower property taxes, by giving more money to schools and ease everyone's inflated property taxes.

Of course it had the opposite effect. Within two years after Jesse made this alteration, you had nearly every school district in the state proposing referendums because they "needed" more money.

I of course, went to public school and enjoyed much the same education as most people in the state. I saw firsthand the layers of bureaucratic b.s. that went into it as well. But I also had the unique experience of spending my last four years of schooling in a private school environment.

While on the front side it appeared to have more office staff than the much larger school I went to, it did not have the district 12-story multi-office building of pencil pushers behind it. They also played a large role in offering up a real budget and meeting it. That meant that the lights were turned off when the room was empty. The heat was lowered over the weekends when the building was vacant. Very simple money-saving efforts that I was previously unaccustomed to.

The school district I lived in got their multi-million dollar referendum passed. The school I went to was torn down and eliminated from the school district even though they got every last cent they asked for. Maybe instead of asking yourself, "Who is going to spend more on education, the military, the (whatever)", ask instead, "Who is going to take MY hard-earned money and put it into an effort that is cost efficient and forwarding a goal of society?" I have pretty much staked out my lines in the sand, and can quite safely say, I know where the people I am voting for stand on waste, do you?

I would also suggest you check out the Citizens Against Government Waste and see who is spending what. I think you might be honestly shocked at the $33 MILLION spent in Alaska for agricultural products (Rep. Ted Stevens), or the $100 MILLION spent on Louisiana waterways alone (Reps. Mary Landrieu and Rodney Alexander).