Local government vs. Federal

After reading a comment left on one of my other notes, I thought I would point out something that may not be clear. Local government, city and state, are responsible to the people of their jurisdiction as it were. The people that live in these areas get to vote on what they want their governments doing, they have representation, hopefully, and they can use referendums on the ballot if they want to change something. These things affect local matters. Local matters are police, fire, education, welfare issues. The local government taxes us with property taxes, sales taxes, taxes on rental cars, hotels, businesses,workman's comp and the list goes on and on and on, oh, let us not forget our gas tax, one of the highest if not the highest in the country.

Big Government, The Federal government is tasked with defending the country, taking care of the ederly via Social Security and Medicare, and if you have some a disability to where you can't take care of yourself you qualify for Social Security as well. Watching over the Securities and Banking industries to ensure they are operating as they are supposed to. OOPS, they didn't do that one too well did they, hence the crisis now. There is no provision in the Constitution for the government to be running the Education system in our country, none. There is no provision for our Government to be subsidizing (giving handouts) to farmers and other companies. Government had a very narrow scope of involvement in our lives when it was written.

Universal healthcare, Nationalized banks, Corporate bailouts, Bailouts for irresponsible people are not part of what the Federal Government is supposed to be doing.

Why should someone living in Washington State have to pay for saying a Marsh Mouse in San Francisco? Shouldn't California be responsible for their own State? Or about sending money to some state so they can have a Tea Cup Museum. Why should we have to pay for a Nevada History museum to be build in Harry Reid's state? Or how about a high speed rail between Disneyland and Las Vegas, why should we pay for that? This is your BIG government at work spending money that hasn't been made yet without regard to the consequences to our country. Why do they do this you ask? Why, well it is very easy, because they can. They don't really care about the true well-being of our country. The more people dependent on government the more votes they will have. They have kept the minority vote in the their back pocket for 50 years. They dangle the carrot out there filling their heads with hope and dreams and Change we can believe in, and then they give them the same old song and dance.

Rise up and be pissed off. If you don't think that we are all in this together, you better think again. The bread lines were filled with republicans and democrats and socialists and every other political party. When we fail we all fail together, and when we succeed we all succeed. Capitalism is what paid for all the liberal programs that you dems like so much. If you take away the income, you can keep on spending. It is easy to see why Democrats are against tax cuts though, judging by Obama's nominees most of the democrats have given themselves self-imposed tax cuts and they just don't pay their taxes.