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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All
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To: BEEF JERKEY who wrote (3762)3/26/2004 12:14:10 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (1) of 37806
 
I don't know if you've worked in government or ever dealt with it, but I have seen mindboggling waste in numerous departments. I've witnessed many, and regular, clear abuses of the public purse in three major federal departments and in numerous provincial departments in three provinces.

Many municipalities are far better run is my experience. Clearly their scope and mandate are much smaller than Federal or Provincial governments; but that also goes to justify the opinion of many that smaller government *is* better and more local control is better than more centralized control.

Borne out by first hand experience, I have to side with those who believe that.

The other side of this issue is that it is unhealthy to have one party rule; unhealthy to have one party dominate the political scene at any level of government for too long. Humans being what they are, utterly fallable and at the same time capable of great things, its best to keep turning over the ground to ensure that air gets in and new ideas and people are given a chance to germinate.

That has not been happening with the Liberals and needs to. There's a systemic disease in that party, and in its relationships with government-dependant business, that needs dramatic pruning immediately before the entire plant falls.

Gardening anaolgies are a sign of the times here in blooming British Columbia I guess...
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