Aren't cities supposed to serve their residents?
by Bob Smith
No Force, No Fraud
02/25/05
City government, like government at all levels, is supposed to serve and protect its residents. Cities were organized to provide some basic services like utilities, roads and streets, and police and fire protection. Unfortunately, as government always tends to do, city governments have expanded, and corrupted, to grab a multitude of other functions. In far too many case, city governments have come to treat their residents as inconvenient puppets to push around. The 'city' has taken on a life of its own, and views residents as resources to be manipulated for the city's welfare, turning the natural order upside down...
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2005/02/25
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
No Force, No Fraud
02/25/05
City government, like government at all levels, is supposed to serve and protect its residents. Cities were organized to provide some basic services like utilities, roads and streets, and police and fire protection. Unfortunately, as government always tends to do, city governments have expanded, and corrupted, to grab a multitude of other functions. In far too many case, city governments have come to treat their residents as inconvenient puppets to push around. The 'city' has taken on a life of its own, and views residents as resources to be manipulated for the city's welfare, turning the natural order upside down...
http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/bsmith/2005/02/25
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 26. Feb, 14:26
