Honest Government
Enforcing Honest Government
Honest government begins with honest people. Politics often attracts a professional group whose primary goal is enriching themselves and their friends at taxpayer’s expense. Many of them are professional thieves. The county bosses and their political machines orchestrate on the public a continual fleecing; or as some would say a continual milking of the cow. This situation they perpetuate by having it institutionalized through their party politics. They do it in the form of multiple pensions, no show jobs, non competitive contracts, exorbitant pay increases, bond ordinance formulation involving inflated costs, favoritism, and various deceits. This must stop.
There is but one special interest that I am concerned with and will champion…and that is the Public Good. Government should exist for the Public Good; not the good of the political bosses and their cronies, or the special interests and their sponsors.
It is obscene to hear a superintendent of schools retiring with full pension and medical benefits and carrying with them hundreds of thousands of additional dollars. It is not a question of them getting the earned benefits, it just appears, however, that greed and unaccountability allow this situation to get out of control, and the bill to the tax payers to be inflated unnecessarily.
On all fronts I support a fair wage; in the private sector as well as the public sector. And I support all labor organizations that fight for a fair wage. But I also support a fair profit and a fair price, and accountability from all involved, be it the private or public domain.
If we look to what is fair in our dealings with government, whether we work for government or pay taxes to support government, an honest government is more likely to emerge. Such a government would be for the Public Good, and in the best interest of the taxpayers.
Much of the in house crime concerning the elected officials could be quashed by an Attorney General intent on cleaning up crime. New Jersey has not monitored itself very well of late. The federal government had to do investigations of individuals that the state government was too corrupt, or too incompetent to address.
I want our house cleaned up. I would prefer we do it ourselves. To this end I will appoint an Attorney General whose legal bent is the Public Good. As Governor I will give him the support he needs to accomplish that goal.
Honest government would save the taxpayers literally hundred of millions of dollars each years if not billions. This can come about when the Public Good becomes our goal.
