Oh the moaning, wailing and gnashing of teeth in some quarters recently, because Binghamton mayor Matt Ryan raised a flag, and put up a sign at City Hall. But shed no tears my friends, shed no tears.
Had the former mayor’s former front man won the ’09 race , taxes would be raised, expenditures would be raised – just as they were every year he worked in the previous administration – and so would the flag that Matt Ryan raised the other day.
Had I won, taxes and expenditures would go down significantly, because the people paying the freight can pay more, and no flag other than the American flag and the New York State flag would fly at City Hall, because those are the only two entities to which I would have sworn an oath. I also had my own ideas for City Hall signs regarding the cost of war and government.
Unfortunately, that was not to be. Hopefully the people’s time to bust out of just switching back and forth between the two parties will come someday, sooner rather than later.
In the meantime, all hail term limits, not only for setting an end to the current administration, and making the next election incumbent free, but for ending the previous administration as well. May they and their political progeny never return to power.
