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CEO, Jeane Thorne Inc.

Just finished watching the video relative to postal worker fraud. Thank you Norm for your continued due diligency. Seeing myself as an Independent, I also appreciate your willingness to also work with your colleagues of either party affiliation!
Sorry I keep missing your speaking events in the Twin Cities!
Best Regards, Mary

By: Mary Marso

Mr.

What disturbs me most about by Senator Norm Coleman’s report is not so much the quantity of dollars wasted as is what I see as a total-disconnectedness between honor and fidelity and these public servants’ jobs. These very jobs that provide essential services to our country.

These expenditures were purely grossly, lavish and arrogant. I believe many workers in both government and private sectors are not fully aware of how this cheating affects us all. After all these same people wouldn’t mug someone in the street for their wallets!

If any employee anywhere feels they are under-compensated or under-appreciated then there are proper channels to go through to address these issues. Few people use the available resources that empower them (us) as individual citizens to open up opportunities and advocate for themselves. Instead they feel crushed and controlled. The Founding Fathers didn’t envision this for us. They envisioned freedom and liberty for all as I’m sure everyone on the planet has heard before.

One reason many don’t channel their rights in a positive civic manner is they feel overwhelmed by all the complexities involved. I believe people would feel much less intimidated if they learned in a piecemeal way about how their local, city, county and state governments operated.

And the fact that any citizen (I have noticed even some individuals who are homeless take part in their local governorship) can be very involved in the governing of their own neighborhood blocks, precincts, districts, wards.

It takes some time, energy and maybe a feeling of shyness, insecurity and overwhelmingness but almost no one doesn’t feel the same way and everyone is overwhelmed by the infinite complexities of self governance. Just as corporate and beauruecratic complexities induce strokes in math professors.

It is not easy. Nothing worth while is. Get over it and swallow your pride! You won’t choke to death; I promise you and trust me the water isn’t that cold. I advice though you first test the water with your toes.

I’ve learned from participating and learning a little here and there about how my neighborhood and wards of my city (St Paul) and county (Ramsey) operate and how I can participate (with no money) in a significant way and be empowered 10,000 times more than if I were to show anger and decide to behave in an anarchic fashion. In the United States we have more than enough channels for major involvement in what is supposed to be a citizen run “government of the people.”

I think we can learn a lot from Senator Norm Coleman’s report on government employee waste.

It should make all those honorable Federal and State and local government employees who follow the rules and the spirit of those rules mad and embarrassed of this abuse, fraud and waste revealed.

Many good public servants who often go to work quietly each day and simply do their work(even work off the clock by choice because of their dedication and integrity to their work) and feel proud of their fidelity and the commitment to there jobs. I think those people should be paid more attention and be recruited more for leadership positions. These are quiet and humble people who aren’t inclined to tell others what to do, but have strong opinions just the same. They need to be asked to serve. Many won’t offer because of there humbleness. I think these good people whether Democrat or Republican are often overlooked.

With out the upholding of honesty and principles the whole infrastructure of all our institutions would crumble. People right now have poor views on the national economy and we can’t afford now for government to lose that precious trust of the people.

I want to thank all the public employees on local and state and national levels that care about their work and quietly show up each day and then after work maybe go coach and referee soccer or are involved in other ways just doing little things that almost always go unnoticed just wanting to make this world a little better place each and every day.

My Dad is one of these people and the older I get the more I respect and value his quiet humbleness and his mixture of doing what he loves with community service in his Blue Earth County, town’s area. When my Dad first started in soccer over 20 years ago it was unpopular and not considered to have much potential. He had the same respect for what he did then that he does now, (Mr. Consistent).

We all need to grow up (everyone has room for improvement). It’s funny I always accepted the idea that we were supposed to be adults by the age of 18. Certainly by age 24 or 25! Now there is a widely accepted theory (the “Odyssey” stage) that it takes 29 years of living to reach adulthood maturity! Well, I don’t think any of us (especially parents) can afford to defer to this new 29 year old childhood standard.


Lastly, about the abuse, fraud and waste of tax dollars I think people would steal less if they believed passionately in the work they do. It’s hard to take away or undermine what one loves. If people don’t believe their job makes a difference they should find a job that does.



By: Pete A. Jarnstrom

taxpayer

It's funny Norm hasn't went after any of the fraudulent spending in the Iraq war. He hasn't found any of the missing arms or money. He seems more worried about getting elected than doing what's right with our tax money. All the loss
over the lies of the Bush administration and Norm hasn't uttered a peep.

By: Linus Anderson

student

Its good to see that we have someone running that really cares about the tax payer and will investiagate wasteful spending. Here we have a man that is not afraid to expose people in the government he works with and suffer backlash for it, in order to protect and put Minnesotans first.

By: Tim Bertram