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RRW: Could God all mighty hisself get industry here? Personal opinion, commentary, by the editor of It's Just for a Smile News By Ralph Roy Waggener A hospital, a new state of the art water treatment facility and even an industrial site to locate on has been built in the name of getting industrial jobs in Adair County. If the powers that be really wanted to get industrial jobs here it could have been done without spending like we have on these three projects, now that we have done these projects in the name of locating industries to Columbia and Adair County. What pray tell, will we need next to accomplish getting jobs here? I heard for years and years that if we had a good water supply or we were wet that industry would come. Well, we have accomplished most of these excuses and we have not taken care of their finances. We have let "THEY" do it and they have spent very unwisely and without checks and balances, do we continue without having a look at the books? What will it take to wake up the people who will have to pay for mismanagement of our taxing districts and government bodies? The City of Columbia has overspent their budget by some $350,000 each of the past 2 years. What happened to the hospital money? Did Casey County Hospital and Green County Hospitals benefit at our expense? Both are still run by Mr. Tungate. And did we hire Experts to help? And did they help us? Or themselves? Just how far out of line does Columbia and Adair County have to get to get a handle on our tax money? We have had our Federal Budget get out of line and we did not have a chance of stopping stupid spending, and the City of Columbia will not share with us why we are overspent by $350,000 each year and we do nothing about it! We need just three doctors sending patents to Westlake to put it in black ink, have we done anything to encourage Doctors to use Westlake? Pogo in the old funny pages said "I have looked for the enemy and I have found it is us". We as a community have done little to see that the people handling our tax money spend it wisely, we have accepted what we have thought was wrong and said little about it. You could have not found many who thought Westlake was being run wisely - for years; yet we did nothing about it. The taxing districts like Westlake and the Adair Water District are financed in a way new to us and most of us did not understand how they worked or we would have objected to this kind of set up years ago. We know now that the taxing districts could, in affect, bankrupt our county and we would have no say what so ever about it! I have been preaching about this for quite some time, will my message be heard or will we sit by and wish for new industry to come save us, or keep on trusting and not knowing what is going on. We have a lot of very smart people here in Adair Co. who have the know how to bring us industry and how to control our budgets, but most just don't want to get involved! - Ralph Roy Waggener This story was posted on 2012-07-20 16:50:16
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