Local govt just as bad as the Feds
Basically, you have people and they need food and shelter…that’s all, 90% of the time. They can get those things for themselves. Everything else like culture and education they also can make from scratch. They need a bit of outside support from time to time (trade money for meds, etc., a travelling judge to settle disputes that the culture doesn’t automatically take care of).
This is the way the US was operating even 50 years ago!
But what do we have now instead? Every decent size town of 100,000 has to have about $200 million worth of hospitals and hundreds of doctors, for one thing. Plus literally HUNDREDS of support agencies. Plus maybe $50 million in schools and HUNDREDS of staff. For these humans who technically and statistically can provide everything for themselves. What’s going on???
Furthermore, in SMALL towns like mine I notice that we now have 35 in the police dept and 45 in fire. WE HAVE NO CRIME AND NO FIRES! …Statistically, that is. Maybe a couple fires a year. A crime that people need help with maybe every five years…and even then help usually does not come! (We just had our five-year holdup. Cops got called while it was happening just a block away. Bad guys got away clean, no sweat.) Anyway, my point is that we’ll soon have 50 cops and 50 firefighters WITH THE SAME SAFE, CAUTIOUS SUBURBAN POPULATION.
Lastly: how did this next change ever happen… It used to be that gov’t jobs which had SECURITY typically had HALF the pay of private jobs that did not. Civil servants traded PAY for SECURITY. They OFTEN had to live in rooming houses in their early years.
NOW I NOTE THAT WHILE I CONSIDER MYSELF A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN, I EARN ONLY 60% OF UNPROFESSIONAL GOV’T WORKER…AND I HAVE ZERO SECURITY AND I PAY ALL THE GOV’TS BILLS.
There indeed is something usurping and creeping. But it’s not coming just from the feds. It’s coming from everywhere.
