Ed, if the U.S. is still the richest country in the world, why is everyone so broke? Communities aross the country are complaining they don’t have enough money, they can’t afford to hire more policemen, or do this or that. If we are so rich, why are we so poor?

Taxed poorly

Home rule. It’s just that simple. We don’t need all these mayors, councils, administrators, directors, assistant directors, clerks, secretaries and on and on and on. But everybody seems to think that they need all that and lower taxes. That is not going to happen. The sooner we understand we only need about 20-25 regional councils in this state that oversees everything from trash pick-up to dog licenses, we’re going to continue to feed a very corrupt system of parasitic public officials.

— Ed. Note