Your Governments in Action

Your Governments in Action

Anyone who thinks that governments, whether federal, state, or local, have become albatrosses around the necks of the citizenry need only consider some recent news items which prove that governments aren’t albatrosses at all. We shouldn’t insult the poor endangered albatross which was given a bad name by S.T. Coleridge two centuries ago.

Governments are much more akin to venomous vipers, blood and money-sucking leeches, and all-devouring vultures. The chief trouble with governments is that in democracies the bureaucrats and functionaries tend to forget who put them where they are, in totalitarian regimes they begin as lowlives. Sometimes in America it’s a challenge to distinguish the forgetful from the low.

Take, for example, Darby Township, PA. where township fathers have hit on a revenue-producing scheme.

It’s bad enough that Darbyites have to live in proximity to Philadelphia and have to try to survive a brutal winter in our global warming world but now, when Darbyites do the township’s job of snow removal and disinter their vehicles from a ton of the white stuff, they can’t claim the space they cleared as their own–unless they want to be fined $300 for the privilege.

Long a tradition in Darby, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3404)