This is America right

I learned this evening that a city manager for Fort Myers Beach was fired in a 5-0 vote last night. No he did not steal funds from the stimulus packages, he did not use city funds to fly to Argentina, nor did he have a woman in his office with a blue dress and a cigar. He married an adult films star. Yes, he met and fell in love with someone who chose to perform in adult movies and they got married.

From the examiner.com "Kiker acknowledged that Janke had violated no rules or laws and added that he had done a good job for the island town that had about 6,500 people, according to the 2000 Census. But the mayor was concerned whether Janke could remain effective."

Why could he not remain effective. By your own admission he had done a good job, even while married to a porn star prior to you finding out. Don't ask, don't tell???

We have enough problems with our elected officials across this country. When you have someone doing a good job, who give a rats ass who they are married to. In my opinion the council reacted without thinking about this. If I am Mr. Janke, the first phone call that I made after hearing the news is to the best lawyer in Fort Myers. This is an absolute travesty. The last time that I check ADULT porn was legal, and I can walk into any adult establishment and purchase adult material. This does not make me a less effective sales person.

I see this situation going only one way. The city of Fort Myers Beach will be served with a lawsuit in which they will most likely settle with Mr. Janke. At that point, wait for it, the tax payers will be paying the bill to someone who was receiving a salary and "doing a good job." Instead he will win and receive at least hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars of your money. By the way for you tax payers, if he gets $1M that is $153 more dollars you have to come up with. Does not sound like a lot, until you realize that you were paying about $15 bucks.

Call the city council today and tell them to re-hire Mr. Janke, apologize for being stupid, and give him an "We are stupid and sorry raise!" It is less money that the law suit will be.

First of Many Thoughts, just this one is general!

Well this is the first post of my new blog. Tonight it is a general thought. I have listen and talked with many people over the last 6 months about the state of our country. I have heard how extremely bad it is and that we are moving to a socialist or even communist country; and I have also heard how we are moving in the right direction, but it takes time. Well who is right? No one is. Listen the sky is not falling. Things are never as bad as they look and on the flip side things are never as good as they look either. I am very disturbed first and foremost by the quick spending of this current government. I am not/was not convinced that the stimulus was exactly the way to go. Having said that did anyone really have the play book as to what to do.

I love the freedom that I have in this country. To me, it was a gift from God to have been born in this country. I do not believe that you should be handed things in life and was taught at a very young age the you must work for what you get. I do however believe that in this country, when the chips are down, sometimes you need a little help to get moving again. What that means for everyone is different.

I am optimistic that we as The United States of America will be just fine and will again become to prosper. We as a whole need to change the way that we think about things in life. Do you really need that nicer car, that boat, a bigger house? I don't know, I do not control your checkbook and finances. All I can say is think about it first. If we as a whole decide to become more involved with our politics, whether on a local, state, or federal level; we will have a voice. And with that voice we can change this country into what we as a whole want to see. You don't have to agree with your neighbor all the time, just respect his opinion. In the end, good discussion have brought on the best ideas in the world. Prime example the Constitution of the United States.

Last note for this post. Brewers won 2-0 over the Pirates. Go Crew!!!