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Ma'am;...You do not seem to understand that you are complaining about a want of democracy... Certainly, if the people had a say on the budget they might vote less taxes, and less service, or more of both... The thing is, that they might not vote to make some politician or pet business richer... What is wrong with people getting what they pay for from govenment??? Would people vote for the enforcement of speeding laws, or marijuana laws if they could know the cost, and had to bear the cost???Would they vote for wars overseas for which they can see no personal gain??? Would they tax the big companies, or give them ever more of the national wealth???We don't get a vote...They play politics which often means some state like Alsaka with few people and little of taxes -taking home a lot of our income...But how much of vice would be taxed instead of prosecuted if the people ran their own affairs...Do we need a national rail system, or a national highway system??? If so the people should be able to recognize that fact and tax those who use it, and the general population who benefit from it.....It is possible that if the people had the power, that they would make mistakes... So what??? Does the government not make enough mistakes without the influence of the people??? Any mistakes the people make they could fix, and take a lesson from it... But now the people learn nothing, and take no lesson because the power of democracy is not theirs...You hear the most outrageous thoughts out of people's mouths, and even out of government because people do not have to face the consequences of their ideas...We need only the answer to two questions: What do we want from government, and what are we willing to pay for it...It is easy to push government toward ideological ends if some one else is paying the bill...Schools indoctrinate in ideology, and the people pay a terrible price for their lack of true education... If the choice was laid out, and the consequences considered, how would the people choose... Would they allow the misuse of their institutions to teach faith or false history if they knew it would disadvange their children in the race for success???Ma'am; you complain about a symptom of the disease this whole society is dieing of, and that is: too little democracy... We do not have choice and power over our own affairs....It frustrates the people and holds us from the good that is our goal...We are not the unwashed masses incapable of true democracy as our forefathers conceived... Now we are the misinformed and miseducated individual, but we have the ability to learn, and to make good personal choices when they are presented to us... We need democracy as our only protection from destruction and slavery... We have no other defense...Thanks...Sweeney