Jim Hlavac
Domestic Affairs
Domestic Affairs
Cities shouldn't have to deal with poor -- a federal problem, freeing up their resources
to pave the roads and provide parks.   There are probably too many commissions,
bureaus, divisions, boards, and other entities of the various levels of government that
can be safely removed.  The US is slowly enacting laws that are in use in other less
successful places, and thus we will become more like them as we enact those laws.  
We are babyfying the population.  And eliminating freedom and privacy on the basis
of pretending to provide for our safety and our security and our health.  Poor people
and small businesses can't afford health care because of excessive taxation and
rules and regulations.    Do goodism run amok by bureaucrats usually results in more
bureaucracy and no problem solved.  A national health care system is not a good
idea, even if every other industrialized nation has one.  It will give way too much
power to the federal government over the behavior of people.  For our health, and for
saving tax dollars, the government will become far more intrusive into our lives and
homes.  It doesn't make a difference how people do it in other countries.  After all --
those same countries are still having a steady emigration to the US from them.  If the
people were content than they would stay.  Something is wrong when there is a
steady flow of people out of a country.    You can not provide something for nothing
and say the government will take care of it without losing privacy and rights, and
without further weakening the economy.  And without further dividing the rich from the
rest of us. Because soon only the rich will have access to what they want and the rest
of us will have to settle for what we are given.