Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

If there is one issue that needs to be addressed this election year it is jobs. New Mexicans are sick of seeing jobs going away in this state. We need the security of a paycheck that can cover the cost of living. Nothing inspires voters more then the fear of not being able to pay their bills and provide for their families. The basic law of survival is beginning to take control over all other needs and wants this election year.

We have watched as public companies have laid people off and cut back income from the ones they keep. Government jobs are doing the same cutting from the bottom up as administration adds more jobs and higher pay to their ranks. Million dollar sweetheart deals are obscene at a time like this but are still being publicized because the administration simply does not care about our children or for that matter their lower income employees.

Government bureaucrats don’t begin to support the voters. They feel entitled to privileges when it comes to spending taxpayers dollars on themselves while protecting people who fail to serve the public interest. No one is being held accountable for a job done poorly in this state. Voters are showing their anger in inappropriate behaviors when bureaucrats face the public for wrong doing because of their lack of support in private. Also their complete out-of-touch lack of willingness to work with the very people that they are representing.

The bureaucrats want to blame their failures on the people lower down the income ladder. What is far more troubling is that they have spent their money buying friends with influence in both parties that will sided with them against frontline workers over the next four years. Candidates simply don’t want to hear any negative details about their good friends who support them with the money taking from low income workers salaries.

Immigration and driver licenses are big issues not because we fear immigrates or want to treat them badly but because they are taking jobs at a time when native born voters cannot find employment. Illegal immigrates have come to expect rights, goods and yes government services that they are not entitled to in the first place, and they are showing no ability to work hard or even be grateful for the benefits received at a time when we do not have enough to go around. Their lack of humility will in the end cost them dearly in this state.

The only ways out of this position is to find ways to bring jobs to this state and generate new jobs through small business development. Government candidates must begin to understand that voters will not support a candidate that will side with bureaucrats. They must be forced to take off the blinders and see what is happening on the frontlines if change for the better is to begin to happen in this state. There can be no new way forward if the candidates are blindly supportive of close personal friends who are the bureaucrats in this state.

It’s the Economy Stupid!

Our economy is making life for New Mexican’s very difficult. We just can’t afford more tax increases at this point in time. My workplace the states largest community college has seen record enrollment because people are out of work yet little to nothing is being said about job creation.

The current candidates are only too friendly with the wrong people who don’t care about working voters who face pay cuts to support their bad habits of large salaries and lavish new buildings with large offices for the government bureaucrats.

I foresee this problem becoming even worse as one of these individuals takes office. They will be forced to cut the budget in the coming months. These women will cut from the bottom up and make sure to protect their bureaucrat friends in the process. It is only too clear that they don’t care about hard working middle class and working poor voters or their families for that matter. The commercials that proclaim they will fight for families and their children are nothing more then lies.

Parents and students will be the ones to pay the near term price for these future budget cuts as more skilled workers are forced out of the educational workplace just in order to make a living. The ultimate price will be paid by every resident of New Mexico as we fail to product a skilled workforce in this state.

Our current crop of local candidates have a lack of skills and foresight to deliver success to this state when it comes to the economy. They are far to in bed with government bureaucrats who are their close personal friends. New Mexico and New Mexican voters will be the ones to pay the price during the next four years. At this point I can see no reason to help put any of these candidates into our state government. Let their bureaucrat friends get them elected.

The only bright spot is on the federal level where we have congressmen in the north and central parts of our state who do care about working families. These men are carrying the lions share of providing funding for education that should be covered by a state budget that works and promotes new job development. One where if budget cuts are needed they are carried out by cutting from the top down. One where waste is the first thing to go and over staffing of bureaucrats are the first to be cut.