tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800006.post6701418234077952593..comments2023-05-15T02:14:27.684-06:00Comments on Diogenes' six: Can we afford to end the culture of corruption?ched macquigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06433039009492338854noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800006.post-71161029741585958342009-07-12T09:20:06.946-06:002009-07-12T09:20:06.946-06:00We are overlooking a major selling point of this p...We are overlooking a major selling point of this pproposal, should it be inacted: it would create new well-paying jobs for New Mexicans, and keep educated, trained New Mexicans in New Mexico...where most of them want to stay anyway.<br />And if you keep these educated professionals in New Mexico working (lawyers, analysts, secretaries, gophers, transcriptionists, CPAs, etc...), then there families will stay in New Mexico with them, and those fzmily memebers will buy things in New Mexico and stimulate the economy.<br />And their children will grow up in a better New Mexico, adding to the economy and work force, and perhaps, a new tradition of ethics.<br />So, Ms. Denish.... there is more than a 3-5% salvation of the budget here. Much more. Let's keep New Mexicans working in New Mexico instead of going off to other states!<br />And let's give our kids a chance to see ethics modeled, so they can continue the right "tradition" of ethical behavior that we put in front of them now.<br />Ched is exactly right...we can't afford NOT TO end the tradition of unethical New Mexican politics...be it the state, the City of Albuquerque, or APS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com