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Why anyone would choose to live like that, in a tract housing schit-hole w/ HOA in ass-crack AZ. is beyond me.

If anyone thinks that the solution to bloated govt. agencies is to eliminate them completely and replace them with private contractors, this would be a window into the future they envision. Nightmare.

I applaud his rebellion against the parking company, but boy does he make me glad I live in L.A. For all of the big city problems we have, there are no little pencil-neck private contractors handling city business like that, in fact one of the things I love here is that the LAPD and most other enforcement officers are too busy to be petty like that. They are not like suburban cops, staring-down every car w/ performance mods or fast-looking bike just itching to write it for something. They have more on their plate, or if they have a quiet 15 minutes they want to go to Starbucks or grab a bite or bathroom break. I happen to think that the LAPD and LASD do a fantastic job here, and I like the way they do it. (Their style).

BTW, the Tempe PD in his story sound just fine, but that whole story got me fired-up on suburbia and pencil-neck enforcement of everything, like parking. I don't know what the term is for someone who is the opposite of a libertarian, someone who never saw a rule or law they didn't like. There are a lot of them these days, and I hate them.

Lastly, that guy's writing style drove me crazy; how can there be so many people, seemingly of normal intelligence w/ a HS education, who cannot spell the difference between "loose" and "lose", "where" for "were", etc... Are schools that ******* bad now?? I wasn't exactly the valedictorian of my public HS, but I write and speak english. Jeezus...