[Vision2020] USA government growth

[Robert Probasco]

It seems the paintbrush may be a bit broad here.  As I remember it, the
Republicans were targeting the kudzu growth of social programs which
emanated from the New Deal and Great Society.  Republicans voiced the
need to support "those programs which cannot be accomplished at the local
level."  Coining the money and providing for the national defense were
always federal projects.  

Local programs were supposed to be controlled locally: education, police
& fire protection, city zoning ordinances.  However, when the
constituents raised a ruckus about the need for improvement, it became
much easier for Washington bureaucrats to throw money at some perceived
ill than to get the locals to take responsibility for fixing the wrongs.

Please note; I do not deny the need for federal intervention in 1954
(Brown vs. Board of Education).  I do think federal intervention in
marriage regulations is only necessary because our inane, convoluted tax
code is serving so many special interests.  It would be preferable to fix
the tax laws [insert big sardonic laugh] than to attempt to regulate
human emotions.

Once again, I refer readers to THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE: How Law Is
Suffocating America By Philip K. Howard Random House, 1994.

Robert Probasco


----- Original message -----
From: "bill london" <london@moscow.com>

One aspect to this Homeland Security stuff that I do not understand is 
the way the Republican Party has flopped completely on the issue of  the 
intrusion of the federal government. 
The Republicans used to show nothing but contempt for government actions.
Republicans used to laugh about the ineptness of the federal government 
and swore they were going to rein in its power and growth.
But now, while they are in power, they have fully supported massive 
increases in federal power and the number of federal workers (and the 
debt to pay for it). 
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  Robert Probasco
  rcprobasco@fastmail.fm

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