What's the business of Government?

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The business of government is not to solve our problems, but to continue them at a manageable level to build the bureacracy.

One need look no further then our current government in this state.

What would happen to DSHS, for example, if welfare were to end altogether?

Much is said about how many have left welfare and gone to work... which is generally viewed as a "good thing."

Thousands have left the welfare roles... Case loads are dropping like a rock.

Should we hold our breath for the next (supplemental) budget to see where DSHS requests that it's budget be CUT to reflect this reduction in case load, and that case workers be laid off? You know... to POSSIBLY save us a couple of bucks?

Right after hell freezes over.

Westin

"I will fight for your children today; I will fight for your children tomorrow; I will fight for your children until hell freezes over. And then... I'll fight on the ice."

John Stanford Major General, U.S. Army (ret) Superintendent, Seattle Public Schools Republican

-- Westin (86se4sp@my-deja.com), September 01, 1999

Answers

The question of what is the business of government is answered in the very first section of our state contitution, Art I Sect 1: "to maintain and protect individual rights."

Funny that such a simple legitimate function of government has to cost us well over $45 billion per biennium. Seems that the Republicans and Democrats have expanded the role of government considerably, at the expense of the people. What does the Dept of Community, Trade, and Economic Development's office in Paris, France, have to do with maintenance and protection of individual rights? Or their offices in Tokyo, Taipei, Vladivostok, or Shanghai? Or the Washington State Dry Pea and Lentil Commission office in Moscow?

Art RIP General John!

-- Art Rathjen (liberty@coastaccess.com), September 01, 1999.


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