These are work gloves.
They become part of you.
Some people never wear them, wouldn’t know what to do with them, wouldn’t touch them, couldn’t sit at a keyboard or slide a mouse around the desk with them on and therefore can’t imagine what they’re good for, except something to avoid, something other people might be compelled to use, but “Oh no, not me.”
What they’re good for on this pristine computer screen is to serve as an emblem, a reminder of what it takes to do the hard work, the tough stuff, the job a lot of people don’t want to do, because things might get messy. They might get dirty. It’s the heavy lifting of digging down and building up from a firm foundation and not saying, “Let’s take it easy. Let’s take a break. If we ignore it, push it off to one side or walk away, maybe it will go away.”
These are work gloves.
Everyone who works in Dane County needs to put them on, one way or another. Some already wear them and do the job. Others just want to keep their distance and keep their hands clean.
As the Dane County budget for the fastest growing county in Wisconsin climbs inevitably toward $1 billion dollars per year and drags along a $30 million dollar plus deficit, the prospect of additional tax referendums looms large.
Anyone who thinks because the big numbers are so big the smaller numbers don’t matter is wrong. It all adds up and as long as the money coming in is less than the money going out, insolvency and debt addiction become the biggest mental health issues in Dane County.
Something must be done; something other than knee jerk tax increases.
Tax payers are not jerks. They’re workers and they work hard for their money. They even work hard at the end of the year with all those tax schedules to figure out how much tax money they owe.
These are work gloves.
I’ve got mine. You’re looking at them. Get yourself a pair, go to the polls April 7 and go to work with me to dig Dane County out of the hole we’re standing in before it gets any deeper.