A Double Five-Year Program

Recently I have heard that a Council Person on the Macon, Georgia City Council has proposed a ten year plan to consolidate the City of Macon with Bibb County Georgia. That would equal two five-year plans which I recall were first established by the Soviet Union to improve their industrial capacity/production. I also recall a five year plan which was implemented by the Soviet Union to improve Agricultural Production.

Did these programs work? From what I understand they did achieve some success, however the Soviet Union later established these schemes as Seven-Year Plans.

Should you desire to learn more about these schemes and their success please read:

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0818831.html

Can you imagine the City of Macon desiring to emulate the Former Soviet Union by recommending a double five-year plan toward consolidation of Macon and Bibb County? Then if it does not happen in the anticipated ten years they can establish a seven-year plan just as the Soviets did when their five-year plans did not achieve total success.

From my point of view as a young farm boy way back in the late 1940s and the 1950s the Soviet Five Year Plans to enhance Agricultural Production were a joke. We all knew that if you wanted more of a crop that you should simply apply sound farming practices and improve the efficiency of your equipment by acquiring new more powerful John Deere and Farmall Tractors which could operate bigger equipment.

What we did not realize is that the Soviet Union did not employ the sound principles of capitalism and freedom which allowed the Farmers in the United States of America to produce more food stuffs very efficiently. The socialism mantra did not allow this type of challenge.

Now we have a Macon City Council that will be considering a Consolidation proposal to improve the government of the people attempting to achieve greater economic efficiencies. I would submit that a double five-year plan is foolhardy at best.

Yes, consolidation will be a difficult event to implement, but the consequences of not doing so in a rapid, yet thought out manner will be the only thing that can eliminate the same consequences that have emerged in Richmond County Georgia and the City of Augusta. This consolidation was ordered by the State of Georgia because each of these governmental organizations failed to act in a timely manner. They simply ran out of money.

I would submit that given the current economic climate in Our Nation, Our State, Our City and Our County that consolidation for the City of Macon and the County of Bibb should be implemented as rapidly as possible.

I am sure that there will be those who oppose this concept because they will loose power and influence right here in Bibb County Georgia.

In conclusion, our duly elected officials must do what is best for "We The People," without out regard to their current status. In the end, the lack of funds will require a Consolidation of Macon and Bibb. I humbly submit that if we do it now we can starve off the same grief that the Citizens of Richmond County and the City of Augusta had to cope with.

I think that we, We The People, can simply do better than our peers to the Northeast.