Letter to the Editor
Published: March 20, 2008

Editor:

Attention Madison County residents: Where does your money go?

On Monday, March 10, around 1:30 p.m., two employees of Madison County Animal Control came and knocked on my door. I went to the door and the two county employees asked if I was Douglas Berry.
I said, “Yes.”

Then, they asked if I owned a dog named Max.

I said, “No.” (I had given the dog to my son.)

Then, I proceeded to ask why they were requesting this information.
One of the animal control officers said, “No dog tag was purchased for 2008.”

This made me irate. I told the two county employees, “Both of you came down to my house to collect $4 for a dog tag with gas prices at $3.25 per gallon in a big county truck.” Also, what about the money that went to pay their salaries for the time it took them to drive to my house?

“If I knew the county needed $4 that bad, I would have mailed it to them,” I told them.

Anyway, my son had already purchased the dog tags for Max in January. A telephone call would have saved the county a lot of our taxpayers’ money.

Can any of you taxpayers believe that this is what the county is doing with our hard-earned money? Well, believe it.

Our county government is becoming a joke!

“For the love of money is the root of all evil,” reads the Bible’s I Timothy 6:10 KJV.

Douglas Berry
Madison County
Taxpayer