Let me make myself absolutely clear on political appointments and citizens electing (voting) for those we taxpayers pay to work for us. I have much more confidence in the citizens who vote, than I do any politicians who appoint.

I know there must be a reason that over the years we have given away our voting rights to elected and appointed politicians, but I really can’t think of a good one. It’s certainly not cost saving.

At a time when things are tough, and money and jobs are scarce, it seems like our federal, state and now local politicians want even more power and tax monies.

If you don’t know, see and feel what our federal government has and continues to do to us with appointed jobs, don’t waste your time reading the rest of this. The president has appointed the biggest group of crooks this nation has ever had, and it has gotten us in the biggest mess we’ve ever been in. Nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. They all seem to want to be our kings or queens and us their slaves.

Governor Sonny Perdue announced last week that Senator Bill Heath, the Governor’s Floor Leader in the Senate, is introducing legislation and a Constitutional Amendment to create a cabinet form of government. Under the proposal the heads of the state’s Agricultural, Insurance, Education, and Labor departments would be appointed by the governor, subject to Senate confirmation.

“This proposal will result in better government for Georgians,” Governor Perdue said. “It will ensure that agency heads are focused on good policy, and not bogged down with the politics of running for re-election.”

That is the BIG LIE! We see what and who an appointee is beholden to, the appointer or politician.

This, of course, would make these positions political appointees, accountable to the governor, rather than to the people of Georgia. Isn’t that exactly what has helped create half the country’s concern with the federal government? Bigger, less responsible government is not better.

If this passes the Georgia Legislature, the people will get to vote on it in November.

This is the same thing that happened with our local school superintendents. This was supposed to take the politics out of the office of superintendent. It did indeed. It took the politics away from voters and made the superintendent subject to three board of education members. It has been the most expensive for the taxpayers and the biggest mess for education of our children.

At a time when people are losing their jobs, their businesses and their homes, our officials are proposing that they take a job away from a trained, certified, elected official who has gone to school to know how to conduct an election. The five district county commissioners who no voter will ever have the chance to remove only one, are having legislation passed to give them control of those who run our elections.

At a time when all local elected officials are fighting to keep the integrity of their offices they are elected to, the county commissioners again, are attempting to take away the power of the offices of the Probate Judge, Tax Commissioner, Clerk of the Courts and Sheriff by requiring them to sign agreements that would put that power in the hands of five commissioners who are not elected by ALL the people. The people will not get a chance to vote on HB1044.

This is not to say we don’t have some good county commissioners, board of education members and other officials elected by all the people. We do, but we have some of the most power hungry officials I have ever seen. We will have a lawsuit between those who are usurping power, and guess who will pay for it? It will be we who pay the taxes in this county.

If those who are elected will tend to jobs they were elected to instead of trying to grab the power of another’s office, we would all get along better and may do something good for the people who elect them.

Have you ever heard of a political appointment being changed back to an elected official?

“Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

“Political appointments are political pay backs and more government. More government means more taxes, Always!” T. Toole