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<blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 812767" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>All this is true if and only if the citizens decide that the government truly is too big. Oh, they all say it. But it&#039;s the government in your back yard that is too big, not the one in my back yard where 4 out of 10 of my neighbors work and if they lose their jobs my property values drop even lower than they have in the past three years. They say it until the garbage isn&#039;t collected or the snow isn&#039;t plowed or the road is simply a series of potholes that the BMw keeps bottoming out on. Show me a congressman that has willingly walked into congress and proposed putting a military base in a neighboring state rather than their own. Or show me an alderman that doesn&#039;t want to spend the money on a railroad spur to bring a Boeing plant into the city. And why do they borrow the money? Because they see a benefit to the community. They see the employment prospects, the rising home values, the higher tax base. Would Boeing or Microsoft or General Electric build in a place that didn&#039;t have such amenities? Not in this country.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="bbsam, post: 812767, member: 22662"] All this is true if and only if the citizens decide that the government truly is too big. Oh, they all say it. But it's the government in your back yard that is too big, not the one in my back yard where 4 out of 10 of my neighbors work and if they lose their jobs my property values drop even lower than they have in the past three years. They say it until the garbage isn't collected or the snow isn't plowed or the road is simply a series of potholes that the BMw keeps bottoming out on. Show me a congressman that has willingly walked into congress and proposed putting a military base in a neighboring state rather than their own. Or show me an alderman that doesn't want to spend the money on a railroad spur to bring a Boeing plant into the city. And why do they borrow the money? Because they see a benefit to the community. They see the employment prospects, the rising home values, the higher tax base. Would Boeing or Microsoft or General Electric build in a place that didn't have such amenities? Not in this country. [/QUOTE]

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