by SomeGuy » Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:09 am
Not firearms related.
Taxes, bad schools, bad county leadership, you catch the drift.
On the tax front it seems the county commission (and some city councils) like annual tax increases. Yes, I said annual. There is always a tax increase somewhere. Over the protestations of most of the county, we had a wheel tax (oops, I mean emissions test) imposed.
Schools...let me put it this way, I was in them. I still refer to it as 'my time as a guest of the government'. It was like a prison. The school leadership is composed of a bunch of education bureaucrats who demand tens of millions of new dollars a year, or else they can't afford to do things like put textbooks in classrooms. Nevermind that 25% of their budget (about 60% of the county's funds) never gets passed the central office. If you have kids, and live in this county, you need to put them in private education, or home school. If you love them, they will never set foot in a government facility. Do note, I did not say an educational facility, because they aren't educational. I could go on about how enrollment drops (or stagnates) every year, yet they demand more money, even though the budget was 312,844,855 for 2007. (Total revenues for 2004 was 285,675,889.)
After all that ranting, I feel better, but can't exactly say I need to start on county leadership. (If you want, I can.) There are a lot of opportunities for a Nurse in Chattanooga and the surrounding area, sure. Just live in a surrounding county and commute. Sequatchie is nice for example.
J. E. F. II, MSN, RN.
Will continue to look into the situation.
