Jacksonville Residents Are Mad As Hell

I agree with almost all of your comments. Our City Council members aren't economists. They are ignorant of the basics in management, how to invest, and unqualified, with the exception of one or two, in how to make our city thrive. Finally, I see many of you ranting about the lack of leadership in our elected officials. Now is the time to watch, or re-watch the 1976 movie Network, where the quote "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" originated.
It's uncanny that nothing has changed since that time, and the movie is the classic example of how it is our fault that we are in this horrible predicament. Here's what I'm doing. Until we get people running for office that are really qualified to hold that office, I don't intend to pay my property taxes. I own my home, and it takes seven years for a property to become delinquent. Many builders use this method until they sell property. They pass the unpaid taxes onto the buyer. As it stands now anybody can get signatures on a petition and run for office. We need that changed. We need to have background checks done on each candidate. I can tell you there's not ONE Council Member that hasn't been either arrested, broken the law, but didn't get caught...yet, been a slum lord, cheated in business, used non-profit status for personal, and illegal gains, abused family members, and the list goes on. Get them all gone!
Last point. Most of you are trapped in a credit card culture, and cannot do what I'm going to do. Get out from under that system. Wealthy people don't spend money in the same way the poor and middle classes do. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Larry Ellison, David and Charles Koch etc. are some of the people all of you need to read about. Throughout their lives they have had a plan. They have not merely existed from day to day. They all learned to think critically, and interestingly enough, none are religious. They are either agnostics or atheists. They do not base major decisions on chance, a sign from god, or what is popular. They were allowed in their formative years to explore, make mistakes, and their home environments were more laboratories for growth, then adherence to the beliefs of the time. Education was the key; not religion.
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