Jim Hlavac
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The governments of the United States have grown beyond all comprehension.
Federal, state, county and city, the governments keep getting bigger, they keep
passing more laws and issuing more regulations and they keep wanting more taxes to
pay for everything. And yet for every person who likes one aspect of the government
there are a handful of people who dislike this aspect. Thus no one is really wholly
satisfied with the situation. Plus, with so many aspects of life affected by the
government so many people are constantly at odds over how "taxpayer" money should
be spent.
This is the reason most pundits say people don't vote. It is also the reason that so
many people are convinced that nothing is going to change. This morass is the
reason that the American public has grown cynical about the whole business of
government. I bet you can't find one person who is satisfied with more than one half of
what the government does. And I doubt you could find an average person who can
grasp the enormity of what the government is doing, or why it's doing it.
We talk of a 2.4 trillion dollar federal budget as if anyone has a clue as to what this
number is. Because the number is always given as this aggregate you could barely
find the average person who even knows where the money is spent. And we talk of
multibillion dollar state, city and county budgets, which are also convoluted beyond all
reason.
Of course the minute you suggest that we cut the budget you will hear a chorus of
"what about the roads?" Or "what about the poor?" Or "we can't cut these programs."
Yet the average person couldn't tell you what he's actually referring to. Think about
this: many people complain about "welfare" -- and yet there's no actual program
called welfare. And when you start to divvy up what comes under the rubric of welfare
then all of a sudden you find these same people liking this or that program.
What this section does is to separate military/ intelligence and security
departments, entitlements programs, Social Security/Medicaid, so called discretionary
spending and the capital budgets so that they can be seen clearly instead of hiding it
all in some huge unintelligible number.
This will lead to greater support of necessary programs and the elimination or
changing of many unnecessary programs.
Federal, state, county and city, the governments keep getting bigger, they keep
passing more laws and issuing more regulations and they keep wanting more taxes to
pay for everything. And yet for every person who likes one aspect of the government
there are a handful of people who dislike this aspect. Thus no one is really wholly
satisfied with the situation. Plus, with so many aspects of life affected by the
government so many people are constantly at odds over how "taxpayer" money should
be spent.
This is the reason most pundits say people don't vote. It is also the reason that so
many people are convinced that nothing is going to change. This morass is the
reason that the American public has grown cynical about the whole business of
government. I bet you can't find one person who is satisfied with more than one half of
what the government does. And I doubt you could find an average person who can
grasp the enormity of what the government is doing, or why it's doing it.
We talk of a 2.4 trillion dollar federal budget as if anyone has a clue as to what this
number is. Because the number is always given as this aggregate you could barely
find the average person who even knows where the money is spent. And we talk of
multibillion dollar state, city and county budgets, which are also convoluted beyond all
reason.
Of course the minute you suggest that we cut the budget you will hear a chorus of
"what about the roads?" Or "what about the poor?" Or "we can't cut these programs."
Yet the average person couldn't tell you what he's actually referring to. Think about
this: many people complain about "welfare" -- and yet there's no actual program
called welfare. And when you start to divvy up what comes under the rubric of welfare
then all of a sudden you find these same people liking this or that program.
What this section does is to separate military/ intelligence and security
departments, entitlements programs, Social Security/Medicaid, so called discretionary
spending and the capital budgets so that they can be seen clearly instead of hiding it
all in some huge unintelligible number.
This will lead to greater support of necessary programs and the elimination or
changing of many unnecessary programs.