When I see how incompetently our Cities are being operated,

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it's no wonder that our country is in trouble.

It's time to wake up, people. We no longer live in a world where the civil servant is allowed to do their job without interference. There is some real malfeasance taking place today and it won't be stopped until we expose it. Today, people who have government jobs in small towns just want to keep the top dogs happy. For them, ethics flew out the window a long time ago. You now have City Attorneys telling Staff people that the laws protect them if an issue comes up over a planning matter; or that the City has sovereign rights so that no one can sue them; or that the ultimate decision makers are the City Commissioners. Therefore, if they approve something, then it's bulletproof because of the City's sovereign rights. Everyone defers to the rule of the Commission and it's no longer the Code that is followed, but the rule of the Commission.

Is it any wonder why business people and real estate individuals have steadily taken over the boards of our local governments with these kind of attorneys to guide them? How long before everyone finally gets on the same page to this blunder? It's like the Constitution doesn't exist any more.

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1. It is awful

I've witnessed so much stupid stuff go down it almost makes me want to go hide in the hills. The people have been pushed away from the processes so far that they don't know what is happening. Local press is mainly to blame, but the politicians themselves sell their souls to the shenanigans all the time.

I've been in the belly of the beast a few times and start to ask questions, but when I look around and see no other citizens with me, I back out. And the pols love it like that.

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2. It's shocking how many people don't want to get involved, even when

they're the ones who are victims of the shenanigans. Some become part of it, finding some kind of inducement to keep quiet, others take their Paxil, making remarks like, how much could it cost us? $3000? These are the same kind of people who would scream if their taxes went up $100.

[BeFree]

3. Yep

Tell ya, it is the reason this country is broken. People just want to bitch. They don't want to get involved, and the one's who do get involved usually do so for their own advantage.

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4. There has to be a happy medium somewhere.

If someone could make money exposing these community rapes, then more people would become activists and serve as a balance to the ruthless sons of bitches that think this kind of thing is their birth right.

[BeFree]

5. Yeah

That's how newspapers once made money, and why they are now going broke.

There was this huge issue in my town years ago that did get some new activists to come out of the woodworks. The paper eschewed the activists, siding with the government, but we did the right thing and won. At least one person told me that issue is what got them going and now they are famous.

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6. Thanks for the encouragement