Reduce Government - Start With Assembly Republicans

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The useless bill regarding a county reduction study in Wisconsin was reported in the LaCrosse Tribune on August 5th. I thought this story was dead by now. But the Janesville Gazette continued to beat this old horse and finally published the story on August 16th…….and on the front page no less.

Our own Rock County Board Chairman Richard Ott put it in a clear and proper perspective.

JG Excerpt:
"If they want to shrink something, quit picking on counties and look internally," he said. Maybe instead of 99 people in the assembly, they could get by with half of that."

I agree. But Richard, don't tempt these clowns, some Republicans just might risk their jobs for the sake of less representation and centralized power. But since the "progressive" Rep. Frank Lasee (R) and his thinking ahead co-sponsors are first with this smaller government idea, they could set a fine example by resigning from state government. Unless of course they want to protect their little fiefdom.

And just to offer an opposing direction, perhaps we should consider a bill to research more counties - not less. In an increasingly divided country, many counties could be broken into two or three. Just consider the new divisions created in Walworth County by their recent board reduction.

But this plan seems spun-off from the privatization pushers and corporate monopolies like AT&T and their drive to overrule local government and municipalities franchise agreements, etc. Just less bureaucracy for them to deal with in their pursuit to hijack public services and steal public assets.