Looking for real profits

Looking for real profits

General Motors, funded by taxpayer money, claims to have made a profit. How is that true when the government owned company still owes money to the taxpayers?

In high school business accounting, they teach income minus expenses equals profit. The taxpayers were left out as an expense, using creative accounting.

The government owned company disguised taxpayer money as profit. After renaming taxpayer money as profit, they decided to distribute taxpayer money to the workers, and call it profit sharing. I hope the workers understand that their “profit sharing check” was really their own money plus some from the rest of us. This is just a taste of what our government is doing to the taxpayer. We need to question everything this government does.

Another instance of taxpayer abuse is public employee unions. They are holding the taxpayers hostage for raises and benefits because the taxpayers have no representation at the bargaining table. The people who sit across from the union bargainers are supposed to represent the taxpayers. However, when union workers get raises, again paid for by taxpayers, politicians get reelected. The public union members, in most cases, receive more pay and benefits than the taxpayers who pay their wages and benefits.

Taxpayers have lost representation with the government and at the bargaining table with state and local unions. I refuse to support a system that determines winners and losers based on belonging to a particular group. Taxpayers need to let their elected officials know that if they are not doing their job, they have been elected for the last time.

Be active. Write letters to the editor and your representatives to share your concerns. Question everything. Take nothing for granted. Investigate. You will be amazed at the difference between what you are told and what you find out for yourself.

We must question all money the government wants to take out of our pockets — state, local and federal. Government officials work for us. We must start acting like the boss.

The taxpayers have been silent too long. Keep in mind, most all the money any government gets is from the taxpayer. We expect them to account for our money.

Allen Ryan Sr., Warren