No Greg, I don't see all of what you see. When I get out of the "area of despair' I see people who are willing to put their lives on the line for others. They volunteer to go into burning buildings, they risk injury and disease, for no pay, to staff rural ambulances. They clean up the roads, themselves, with their own equipment when storms hit.
Not exactly what I'm talking about. I would think that putting lives on the line for others is not something unique to other parts of the country, it happens here too. I think community sprite lives on with volunteer fire and even police if that is possible.
What I mean has nothing to do with cleaning up after a storm or cleaning a road.
This would work in cities that are strapped for cash, for example my great township has been playing games with the budget and police pensions all the time complaining we have little cash but yesterday I was watching a boom truck take down banners and doing some "beautification" work, I say fire the workers, get people willing to do the work and sell the boom truck, money is more important.
But see the problem is the public worker and their union which by the way Tallcal mentioned in that other thread that was locked. I think his point was clear as is mine, the core problem is the mentality of public servants from the top down and until we, the people get the idea how it should work, we are slaves to them.
Sure, there are "Obama Bums" every where, but, the further you get away from the 'freebie dispensing sites" (larger cities) the percentage of them in relation to the area population, drops off.
You know here is the thing that gets me, in order for you to get rid of them, you have to do two things - fight to reintroduce liberty and stand back when something happens that you don't like that other people do.
It is that simple.
This breaks the back of the bureaucracy that was created to feed the bureaucracy and keep people in power.
The term "Obama Bum" has little to do with 'democrats' but more to do with the putz setting the trend in Washington. "Bush Babies" worked when he was in. On the very outside chance that Romney is elected, just as an example, they would be "Romney's Runts".
But he isn't setting the trend, that was done back when the system was created. The expansion of the system wasn't done to help people but to keep those in power, in power. YOU want to end it, find someone like Paul who is willing to try to break these things up and who has radical ideas that just need to be tried.
Like the Fairtax, you are opposed to anything that may work. The Fairtax has to have a chance to work before it can be deemed not working and then we can try something else. Even though taxes are a problem, the real problem is how we are being approached on a political level with them, there is too much ambiguity and with the fairtax there isn't any, it is simple and out in the open.
