Faubel Wins County Contract Worth $760,000
Posted by: Adam D. Probolsky | 12/16/2007 2:27 PM
File this under boring but true...
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I am pleased for Roger and John - both very capable fellows.
Still, there seems something inherantly wrong with these government-sponsored public "awareness" campaigns.
The notion that we are all taxed and then the funds taken from us are used to "educate" us on what is going on with our tax funds.
As a taxpayer, for example, I don't really care or want to know about the "Groundwater Replenishment System" -- it sounds very obscure and uninteresting.
All I really care about is that I have water to drink at a reasonable price.
Seems to me that a better deal would be to stick information in one's water bill for those who really care, and then take the rest of the "PR" budget and lower water rates.
Can anyone tell me why we want to be "educated" about the Orange County Stormwater program? I guess maybe Roger or John can do so, since they're getting paid to do it.
Cynically, I usually see these government PR programs as being designed to get taxpayers to buy into more taxpayer funded programs.
Anyways, don't let my rant about how our tax dollars are spent be interpreted as saying anything negative about Faubel and his team. If someone's going to educate us about obscure government programs, they will do a very capable job.
I would not trust anything from Waters and Faubel. They spent years lying about El Toro Airport. After 4 tries they got their way. Even a last place team can beat a first place team if they play them enough times.