Posted on 02/16/2010 8:54:25 AM PST by J. E. Quidam
Forty-three percent (43%) of U.S. voters rate the performance of their local government as tops compared to its counterparts on the state and federal level.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 14% think the federal government does a better job. Nineteen percent (19%) say state government is better than the other two.
Local government tends to be controlled by citizen representatives, whereas most federal representatives serve the Special Interests. And state governments have been castrated by the federal government, and largely serve to implement federal policies.
“Rasmussen: 43% Say Local Government Better Than Feds, States”
One reason? In my local community, if my mayor makes a stupid decision that turns out badly, I can holler at him either before or after church or little league game.
Not so much with Senators, Representatives or the President.
For the most part yes they are better. My township supervisor came over a few times last summer to see how I was coming along on building my permit free porch. He never asked about a permit or anything. He just commented that it made the place look a lot better from the lake.
Stronger local government, lesser state government and a federal government tasked with only certain things.
This is exactly what the founders intended. Nice to see something near half the people agree, even if they don’t recognize that they do.
Our whole tax scheme is messed up. The biggest portion should go to local gov’t where you can have the most say. Then state and then the feds. By the same token people should fix there own problems and quit looking to washington for everthing.
“43% Say Local Government Better Than Feds, States...”
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And wherever possible, NO government is the most bestest of all.
Between this and the Tea Party Movement, all the ingredients are there to take this country back.
NOT IN CHICAGO.
Not if you live in Illinois! And not just Cook County. The Peoria County Board is doing a great job of using the Obama Administration as a model. They are working to take over a private not for profit.
I don’t trust any Democrats!
It’s almost as if the people who wrote the constitution knew what they were doing? Too bad the people in the White House can’t wait to re-write that document.
That document doesn’t take into account the brilliance of the modern day elite!
(/sarc if needed)
Even our lake association is tolerable because it only consists of about 30 people. The biggest issue we’ve had to take up is the cost of spraying the weeds in the lake. I think we are going to stop paying an outside company and just get someone here licensed to do it.
The lack of weeds has brought a lot more boat traffic and may lead to a vote on a no wake rule.
That is an interesting point of view. Here in California our legislators are so appalling it would be hard to increase their numbers though. :0)
Example: our local officials currently pushing a one-quarter cent sales tax increase at a time when headlines point out how many families are asking for help with food to feed their children.
Does that not blow the mind? Local people who need help feeding their families do not need to be paying more for other things in order to fund a community college to "educate" people who may be from other areas (even illegals).
The national government mindset has infiltrated the minds and attitudes of people elected to their own local government.
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
Until recently, I had never noticed the last clause of this profound statement. Now, it is clear. Citizens who, in 2010 are without jobs, knowing that their governments are hiring, will agree to take one of those jobs, even though, by doing so, they are "hiring themselves to rivet their (government's) chains on the necks of their fellow-sufferers."
And, governments, at all levels, know this and continue their prolific ways! They must be stopped.
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