It is incredible for some to believe that all the elected officials, bureaucrats and even the road grader guys are employees of the PEOPLE. Yes that is true. Our tax dollars pay their wages/salaries and they are accountable to us.
Two years ago, I requested some work of our county road department as I knew as son as I started doing something, I would get a nasty letter from the county government. It has been TWO years and nothing has been done and yet, when they did finally come, they were going to do a job so botched up that I decided that it was futile to deal with any longer. No, I didn’t give up but I will go ahead with my original plans of taking care of it and if I am given any type or nasty letter or fined, I will tell them to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.
City and County governments are good at ignoring the People, which is why it is so important to find out just exactly what they are up to and to monitor them at all times. The facts are, the cities and counties are more powerful than the State and the State is more powerful than the Federal Government. That is the way it was set up by our Founding Fathers. So, it behooves us to pay attention closely to what is happening on the city and county levels as they are our last defense against tyranny and if the local levels are filled with corruption, there is no way to stop it at higher levels.
Find out what is going on at the local levels, use your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or in Kansas, file a Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) form. Dig in and audit what is going on. Find out how the local government is using or abusing your tax dollars and then act, if they are misusing funds. Call them out, get a group of people together to put a stop to it.
How many people actually pay attention? it is easy for abuses at the local levels because people are too busy to attend meetings, mainly because they are when people can’t get to the meetings because they are during the time that most people WORK. It is too difficult for local governments to meet when it is more convenient to the PEOPLE.
We are living in a time when our freedoms will be taken completely away in less than a half generation, in my opinion. UNLESS we act as our Founding Fathers gave us the rights to act, we are done as a nation. It is up to you! Stand up and fight back now or you will pay for it dearly tomorrow.
Educated Cowpuncher 