Ayres Retires; how sweet it is

Northwest Indiana has finally found a way to get its useless politicians to leave office, retire.  Death is the other alternative; but retirement is generally more cost effective.  State Representative Ralph Ayres has decided to retire after a million years in the State Legislature, which sadly NWI citizens must admit seems to be the only way to remove inactivity and incompetency from political office here.

The main reason for this is that politics in NWI is dominated by "tribalism".  Although this tribalism is most frequently reflected in Lake County Democratic Party, the Republicans are not immune from it, as rare as they are in NWI.  The main reason for this is that "tribalism" politics has to do with who you know not what you can do.  Who you know is not limited solely to a single political party.

Now it is no secret that Ayres was incapable of achieving anything substantive for NWI.  For example, during this last term, when he was the second in command of the House Ways and Means Committee, NWI lost overall funding, i.e. tax dollars being returned to NWI.  So when he did not have that much power, he contributed nothing.  That is probably the reason he quite because he was a looser and probably afraid that this would come out now that he did not have an excuse of being in a minority party.

So this looser is now going to collect all of his benefits, including health care, and ride into the sunset having taken NWI for a ride.  So what else is new from our illustrious legislators?  NWI never lives and learns; it only keeps on making the same mistake by being conned by a peacock instead of looking at performance, i.e. the bottom line.

Now how can we get State Senator Frank Mervan to take the hint.  No one has ever doubted that he is incompetent and ineffective as a legislators; although he is overall a nice guy.  But being nice is not what he is elected for.  How much longer can he go on?  If it is not painful for him, it certainly is for any intelligent citizens of Lake County who have to witness his pitiful sad performance.

Comments

[Tina Easter]

I can't decide whether I pity you for your negative outlook on, well, everyone and everything, or whether I admire you for taking a stand to expose the truth and affect change in your world. I truly can't decide. Maybe I'll choose to do both. All I can say is that if these articles are any indication of the "climate" in NWI, I am glad I don't live there. P.S. "Loosing" is spelled "losing".