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Dear
barryqwalsh
This could probably be organized by STATE to manage the budgets, expenditures, and enrollments
WHILE TRACKING ANY ABUSES.
Because of the size and diversity of populations and regions in the US,
trying to build a system to manage this on a FEDERAL level is not the way to start.
Walmart is huge but started with ONE location before expanding.
Nobody can expect to open up branches in all states at the same time, serving all the populations and expect to manage the costs, expenses, losses, management in a cost effective ACCOUNTABLE manner.
Good stable businesses that sustain start off by managing LOCALLY
before expanding nationally and globally.
Sam had to do some pretty shady operations to make it above the local K-Mart....
Good point
Moonglow
My point was that any operation has to start off locally before expanding nationally to cover a broader population and demand.
But you bring up an even BETTER point.
How many liberals are AGAINST the corporate abuses in order to manage operations that size?
Why do people who distrust CORPORATIONS because of the SIZE of the resources and power
CONCENTRATED IN THE HANDS OF THE FEW
"trust FEDERAL GOVT" to handle ALL THE NATION'S health care
through a politicized system of Congressional representation that we have no direct say or control in?
If we want to go back to Mom and Pop shops that bigger corporations have "put out of business" by undercutting the competition,
why would we want to give centralized govt a MONOPOLY
instead of empowering local communities to run their own operations?
The communities that have the lack of resources will never get implemented..
???
Dear
Moonglow
The whole point of "equal protection of laws" is to remedy this.
We can tell which districts need help,
* if their economy is going down, businesses are shutting or Walmarts leave
and there is a gap where there is no local grocery, pharmacy or other business
for miles. That is an opportunity to invest and create jobs/businesses to MEET that demand.
* if their crime rate and amount of taxes spent on incarceration
EXCEEDS the money needed to cover education, housing and health care to be SUSTAINABLE.
If we can address this DRAIN on the state and local budgets,
don't you think that through the school system, we can identify
districts that NEED HELP to address social ills that exceed their capacity and facilities to meet the demands of the local populations?
What a concept, right?
To actually USE reps per district to access NEEDS of constituents
THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT
and make sure the ILLS and COSTS of crime, health care and social/business needs
don't exceed and strain the local resources.
Shouldn't we HIRE govt officials to ADDRESS and REMEDY strains on the budget
and seek to INVEST and CREATE JOBS where there IS A DEMAND.
IF GOVT OFFICIALS FAIL TO DO THIS WORK, DON'T YOU THINK
WE SHOULD FIRE AND HIRE EFFECTIVE REPS WHO CAN DO THE JOB???
Between charities, businesses, schools and govt,
you don't think every community can assess the Needs and Demands
of its local populations, and go through the school and govt channels, even
the media or online, to REPORT what problems need to be corrected?
We can't use our media, parties and govt connections to resolve these things?
Why not?
