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Originally posted by Superman
I'm throwing down the gauntlet. The olive branch.
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Well, I'm picking up the conch through which I will announce...
...that efficiency varies from state to state and that state's population. And I've found that as a state grows in population, the government becomes more inefficient. LA County is a good example of that. Our roads are awful, detritus (abandoned buildings, houses, vacant lots, etc), are everywhere. Social services aren't what they used to be; but LA County continues to expand.
Another example of inefficiency is the Federal Government. Have you seen the pathetic state-to-state distribution of Homeland Protection Act funds? New York gets $5 bucks per person while Wyoming receives over $30! Ridiculous.
Government suffers, in the very least, from ADD. It increasingly focuses less on the big picture and concentrates itself more on things of little interest that do not support the mainstream. For instance, L.A. has needed an expanded freeway system for over 30 years, but CA. has been too infactuated by environmental impact studies that interest only a few in lieu of the larger masses. Now, of course, we have no money to even hope for expanded transportation - freeway, train, bus or otherwise.
Maybe WA. government is different. But CA. government suffers not just efficency problems, but poor judgement. I'm holding out hope (the future president) Schwarzenegger will turn things toward the right direction. Or maybe a mass exodus of East Coast squatters move back from where they came.
