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Originally Posted by Pete
All three of you missed the point. It's not the taxpayer, it's the government that will soon be in control - in the name of the taxpayer.
Ah, and if anybody has been paying attention lately it will be ruled by the same ones that got us in this mess in the first place.
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Understood and you're absolutely right. I think far too many politicians (from the left, but the right is complicit as well) keep thinking about their short term goals rather than what's right for the country. The DNA of the system has rotted. I have zero confidence in proposals of either party and primarily Congress to manage.
Well, at least this taxpayer will be annoyingly sending letters and calling the representatives exercising his rights. I don't know if that'll make an impact, but I hope other Americans do their duty as well in staying engaged and it just may. But yes, it's more government management of resources. Seems like the ball keeps bouncing back and forth between big business and big government and both act in interests of self-preservation rather than driving for customer (or taxpayer) value. Instead of decentralization of decisions and resources, leveraging our federal structure and the new information age, more and more decisions are being concentrated in the hands of few sitting in DC or fancy big offices around it. Micromanagement of our lives....