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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (20482)	8/3/2001 8:42:12 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

It is a matter of finding the money that is not going to delivery of services. Tricky business, that. One of my "favorite" money pits is the constituent letter. I guess it's a hobby horse of mine because over the years I spent a lot of my time (which equated to the taxpayers' money) writing answers to them. I have an aunt and uncle in Montana who are letter writers. Don't like something you see in the news? Write a letter to the appropriate government agency and cc a few inappropriate ones as well. Or better yet, send it to your Representative and both your Senators so that it will be referred to the agency three times. Yikes, the money that consumes. I'm sure that my aunt and uncle consume in resources every month an amount equal to or greater than their annual tax payment. But, hey, that's what the government's there for, to answer the questions of its citizens. In fairness, agencies try to be efficient about these things and create form responses to common questions. But the unique or sensitive questions, and generally all questions at the beginning of an administration, get personal attention by some expert and then multiple reviews by assorted six figure political types. Expensive, especially when the answer is right on the agency's web site. Karen