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Originally Posted by Skip
Yes, there is ample corruption, deception & ineptitude found throughout government. Just as there is in many of the private industries that dot our landscape. On the other side of the coin there are many folks in government, and the programs and departments they represent, that truly make NH the attractive state to live, love & play in that it is!
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Skip, as always, you make fine points. I'd like to take a couple of your quotes out of order, although hopefully not out of context. In my last post, I am guilty of painting with a broad brush, insinuating that all city employees and politicians are corrupt. I do not believe this, nor did I mean to imply it. To you honest city employees and politicians, please accept my most humble apologies, I really do appreciate the sometimes thankless jobs you perform.
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Originally Posted by Skip
But even in a city a group of citizens always retain the right to petition for a charter change and revoke city status and return to a town form of government. Case in point? There are a group of citizens in the City of Somersworth currently exploring this option.
My point is that an informed citizenry is the best defense against perceived government run amuck. Many times a little research will reveal that no problem truly exists, or may reveal a scathig indictment of a system, as the retirement system fiasco was revealed in Dover.
The problem is simple. Too many folks, whether they live in a town or a city, take their voting privilege to lightly and fail to excercise their right to participate and make positive or effective change. When that occurs, government operates in a vacuum. And that vacuum has a tendency to "suck" our money!
I said it before and at the risk of being redundant I'll say it again....when it comes to the political shortcomings of our communities, our State or our Country we have met the enemy, and thet is us!
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I agree 100 percent.
Here is my problem. In some of the posts in this thread and elsewhere there seems to be an underlying current of feelings that SB2 is in some way a method to thwart groups of people who have taken the time (which is not much by the way) to understand and work within the framework of town meeting government to institute the change that they want. If they have figured out how to get their way at town meeting, what's to stop them from figuring out how to get their way with SB2? Nothing. In fact it's much easier to stop, change, amend warrant articles than it is ballot questions. Hence, it's much easier to stop these groups at town meeting than it would be at the ballot box.
Anyway, it seems to be comin' like a train wreck:
SB2, a more limiting form of goverment even with its good points, to replace traditional town meeting.
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More taxes, to lower our tax burden.
You'll all have to excuse me for not understanding..............