The State Government (and a lot of my old friends are in it!) really did everyone dirty when they Pandered to the Polls and cut the property taxes. The infrastructure was already in terrible shape, County Government was against the wall, and the economy was poor to say the least (obviously the Housing Market leading the non-performing industry list).

The slashing of the property tax revenue hurt the infrastructure more, did very little to stimulate the economy as a whole, and planted seeds of doubt in a lot of minds as to whether or not the State has the courage to do what is needed in the future to build a solid foundation for an economic recovery.

Gashing education without a single idea being put in place to improve efficiency is a huge mistake. The Courts are going to be a breeding ground for lawsuits for years to come over failure to provide required services to those in the system.

I could go on and on forever

Officials getting elected without the ability to lied is half the problem. The other half is the simplistic uninformed population that votes based on 30 second sound bites, and almost 1005 based on short term Patch, rather than sensible long term fix.