Dear friends,
The help has arrived to the people.Taxpayers are buyers and sellers, the federal program has been a success, people have responded.
In the short term it is a true injection to our economy and on the long term to our environment and our oil dependency from countries that don't like us.
We need a national conscience to lower our oil dependency, we know that oil won't last forever, what are we going to do after the oil is gone?
This program covers in essence many of these topics and they have been addressed responsibly.
But one of my issues is that we are now a global economy and helping domestic car manufacturers ( American cars) would have made a lot of sense for our country.
The reality is that U.S. manufacturers they have not improved in the miles per gallon (MPG) and foreign manufacturers will reap the benefit.
Toyota,Honda, Hyundai,and others were ready for the challenge, american manufacturers were not.
This is program is a victory for the new administration, honor when honor is deserved.
We are loosing our managerial skills and competitive advantages, the great leaders of the past have gone to sleep and the new leaders are not waking up.
Let us not forget about our American industries, they need our help and we need them to maintain ourselves as an always progressive country.
We have a complex economy that have been the envy of the world for many years and we will overcome our current failures and grow stronger learning from our past .
I know this because, I am one of those americans and millions like me, are ready to built our nation stronger than ever, a block at a time.
Please have no doubt about it, we will succeed.
Jose F Padro, P.A. CPA
Monday, August 24, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
My point of view of Florida and Miami -Dade County Real Estate Taxes
Our State and local Government have grown to big to fail, but they are killing us.
So they have decided to maintain their current size and expenses with little adjustments for window dressing.
They knew the real estate bubble was going to burst, they saw it coming, they have economist on their payroll and they decided to look the other way.
In Miami- Dade the commissioners decided not to confront the anger of the people and cowardly abstained themselves from voting for the budget.
These so called commissioners, representative of our taxpayers, respond very little to our interest and respond very much to the special interests.
These commissioners,which I question their formal education are career politicians, with some exceptions of course, that would not be successful running a business in the real world are now in control of our government and a Strong Mayor than instead of being running the county like Raul Martinez did in Hialeah, has kept a county manager to run the day to day operations. So what's the purpose?
The reality is that when the economy retracts the budgets must retract. This is true and brings a reality of how common sense and professionalism is used in budgeting in our capitalist society.
Lets remember our politicians, that we are a democratic and capitalistic society and not a socialistic society in which the government can abuse society members for the benefit of the government.
We the people understand our social responsibilities but ,we are angered by our local, state and federal governments misuse of our funds, and then after those abuses they want more of our money.
No, No, No......No more taxes...Get your budget balanced...If you need to cut expenses, cut them...If you need to cut the pension, cut it...If you need to stop the abuse, stop it...If you need to cut from payroll an employee ,cut it...If you need to cut a fireman from payroll , cut it....If you need to cut a police from payroll, cut it......... I know about this, because I am a business owner and I deal with budgets every day of my life and when I can't afford an employee with my heart broken, I have to let go.
We also have limited and shrinking budgets. Do politicians and government understand, that we the taxpayers have been affected by this recession and we don't have money to spare.
Is that so difficult to understand ? Nobody is helping my business nor my employees during these harsh times and now you want us to pay more taxes, local, state and federal.
Hey, we are watching you and we will exercise our vote and we will kick you out of office if you force us,
This is no a threat, this is a fact of life.
Jose F Padro
Padro & Company, P.A.
Certified Public Accountants
http://www.padrocpa.com
So they have decided to maintain their current size and expenses with little adjustments for window dressing.
They knew the real estate bubble was going to burst, they saw it coming, they have economist on their payroll and they decided to look the other way.
In Miami- Dade the commissioners decided not to confront the anger of the people and cowardly abstained themselves from voting for the budget.
These so called commissioners, representative of our taxpayers, respond very little to our interest and respond very much to the special interests.
These commissioners,which I question their formal education are career politicians, with some exceptions of course, that would not be successful running a business in the real world are now in control of our government and a Strong Mayor than instead of being running the county like Raul Martinez did in Hialeah, has kept a county manager to run the day to day operations. So what's the purpose?
The reality is that when the economy retracts the budgets must retract. This is true and brings a reality of how common sense and professionalism is used in budgeting in our capitalist society.
Lets remember our politicians, that we are a democratic and capitalistic society and not a socialistic society in which the government can abuse society members for the benefit of the government.
We the people understand our social responsibilities but ,we are angered by our local, state and federal governments misuse of our funds, and then after those abuses they want more of our money.
No, No, No......No more taxes...Get your budget balanced...If you need to cut expenses, cut them...If you need to cut the pension, cut it...If you need to stop the abuse, stop it...If you need to cut from payroll an employee ,cut it...If you need to cut a fireman from payroll , cut it....If you need to cut a police from payroll, cut it......... I know about this, because I am a business owner and I deal with budgets every day of my life and when I can't afford an employee with my heart broken, I have to let go.
We also have limited and shrinking budgets. Do politicians and government understand, that we the taxpayers have been affected by this recession and we don't have money to spare.
Is that so difficult to understand ? Nobody is helping my business nor my employees during these harsh times and now you want us to pay more taxes, local, state and federal.
Hey, we are watching you and we will exercise our vote and we will kick you out of office if you force us,
This is no a threat, this is a fact of life.
Jose F Padro
Padro & Company, P.A.
Certified Public Accountants
http://www.padrocpa.com
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