http://centraljersey.com/articles/2009/10/21/opinions/doc4adf8e896a7e2524530393.txt
DISPATCHES: Power to the people
Farm’s preservation shows that engaged citizens can effect change
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:47 PM EDT
By Hank Kalet, Managing Editor
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The lesson of all these efforts is fairly simple: If you want members of your local town council, county freeholder board, state Legislature or Congress to act on your behalf, you can’t sit on your hands. You have to get involved.
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Ahh, the madness of crowds.
There is no way that the individual can stop the mob frenzy to do “something”.
Preserved farmland. How can someone be against that.
Too bad if you are, because your taxes have been used for it. You write as if these “governing bodies” have assets to “invest” in “preserving” farm land. They don’t. They only have that which was taken by force from one’s fellow taxpayers. TO pay for someone’s pet project.
Argh!
If those involved were to form a non-profit and raise money by donations to pull this off, then I’d be impressed.
Perform a mental experiment. How do you think effort would go? Would people VOLUNTARILY chip in? In the amounts you needed to pull this off.
(We both know he answer to that!)
No, see, all you can do is steal what you could not raise voluntarily. And, then the robbers — some of whom may not even realize what they have done — expect kudos for doing it.
Then, you go an urge us to do more of it.
Argh!
The Dead Old White Guys were very right to fear the mob rule of democracy.
Throwing in “health care” is just more of the same. In this case, you and the rest of the mob are stealing from future generations — just as the socialists did with Social Security. And, it is all not going to end pleasantly as the socialists are destroying the country.
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