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Federal government should stay out of local issues

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My son told me how excited and proud he is about the Riverside Parkway. He sees a big difference between this road and a bridge to nowhere. The Riverside Parkway is being paid for by the community. Residents took the financial responsibility for building it.
My son sees how communities should grow from the inside through local government and that federal government should stay out of local and state affairs and concern itself with matters of all our citizens. The feds should stick to the big stuff, like homeland security, immigration, Social Security and defending our country. It should not meddle in local issues and responsibilities such as a telescope for a Chicago museum or a study of bear-mating behavior in Montana.
I just know our federal government would do a better job of fulfilling its constitutional responsibilities if it would focus on those responsibilities and stop trying to involve itself in things that are our local or state responsibilities.
ARTHUR S. GARDNER
Grand Junction

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3 Responses to “Federal government should stay out of local issues”

  1. John
    Posted November 28th, 2008 at 4:19 pm  Login to Send PM  Report this comment  

    If I’m not mistaken the city got some federal money to help with the Riverside Parkway. I 70 is a major contributor to our economyand mobility. That’s federal money. We need a 29 Rd interchange and the completion of the Parkway circumventing the city. It won’t happen unless there’s going to be federal money available. The DOE was a large player in our local economy and is still here in a diminished role. I think double laneing US 50 has federal money involved. Want air service? Lots of federal money makes it possible. And the list goes on and on. Maybe in an ideal universe the federal money could be limited but local taxes would go way up and federal taxes would not come down in any significant way Would we then charge a toll for everybody coming through our area? We’d have to do that any place we went, wouldn’t we? We already do that at a city level with sales taxes to help with our purely local services and infrastructure. We are so inter-connected to the rest of the country that federal help to localities for things we share with everybody is inevitable.

  2. oneperson
    Posted November 29th, 2008 at 11:20 am  Login to Send PM  Report this comment  

    ‘… federal government should stay out of local and state affairs and concern itself with matters of all our citizens.”

    If someone could explain this to me I would be appreciative.

  3. Sullivan
    Posted November 29th, 2008 at 10:49 pm  Login to Send PM  Report this comment  

    A Libertarian to the max. (Though not very knowledgeable on local affairs.)

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