Editor, Gazette-Journal:
“If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it.” – Lord Kelvin
Budgets, gauges, meters, and scales surround us. Measurement developed as a means of survival, so there would be enough food, enough firewood, enough seeds to plant in the spring.
Without measurement, survival becomes incidental and randomly successful. Prosperity can be inferred at a great banquet, but if all the food stores are used up at the banquet, then starvation will follow. I am seeing our elected officials sanctioning unnecessary extravagances without concern for the future: gilding the Oval Office while our costs continue to rise; installing flagpoles and building a ballroom while bulldozing homeless people and their belongings, firing department leaders for performing their required measurement duties, allowing soldiers trained in warfare to police the streets of our cities.
Our measured tax dollars are not working for us as required by previously passed laws. Unelected, unvetted and unc...