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Government endeavors are wasteful until they're essential - 2/17/2012 5:26:31 AM   
Owner59


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Status: offline 		"Commentary: Government endeavors are wasteful until they're essential"

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/02/12/3417028/commentary-government-endeavors.html#storylink=cpy

"Tuesday's weird, doesn't-really-count Missouri presidential primary came in the middle of Missouri's weird, doesn't-really-count winter, two facts that help illustrate Helling's first axiom of politics and government, which may be stated thus:

Most government endeavors are wasteful.

Until they're essential.

Local and state governments, for example, spent millions of dollars last fall buying the armaments of their annual War on Winter: salt, sand, beet juice, truck parts, scraper blades, stuff like that. Sitting here now, as the tropical breezes of a Kansas City winter waft through the newsroom, that money looks like a waste. Better to have spent it on other public needs, or left in the pockets of taxpayers"



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RE: Government endeavors are wasteful until they're ess... - 2/17/2012 5:32:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Actually, much of that rolls down from the Federal level. Do your state's DOT want its "free" money from the Fed's Department of Transportation? All you have to do is show your state meets minimum requirements for winter weather. Which is why some towns in Texas have snowplows that have never moved, and other towns in Tennessee now salt roads they never bothered to salt before.

That's just one of many "golden handcuffs" programs that work by letting the Fed tax the residents of a state and then buying the state government's cooperation with that money.

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RE: Government endeavors are wasteful until they're ess... - 2/17/2012 5:54:39 AM   
Owner59


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Status: offline 		The fed has a role too.And is irrationally bashed out of hand as intrinsically bad-evil-heavy-handed-to-big-intrusive-etc.


I think the point is that typical, government bashing,big gov or small gov,is really kinda of hollow and opportunistic and not helpful or for the public good.


One of my standard come-backs to folks who say our government is super slow and inefficient, is to point out how much faster and efficient communism is.


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