re: Anyone ever work for the government?

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The further removed you are from being accountable to the people you "serve" the shittier a job you shall do.

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Exactly. In my parish, each councilman represents about 10,000 people. His kids go to the same high school I went to. They go to the same church. He still works a regular 9-5 job like every one else. I know that I can go sit on his back porch and drink coffee with him on a saturday morning.

I can't do that with my Senator.

I may be able to do that with my state rep since he's a cool guy.

I can't do that with my Congressman, nor my governor (though maybe his wife ).

I can have lunch with my parish president.

People at the local level are closer to the problems and closer to the people they represent. That's why federalism exists, so that more power is concentrated where people are closer to the problems. The problem is, that since 1865 (even more-so since the Wilson Administration), the power and decision-making has continually shifted more and more to the federal government to be made by unaccountable bureaucrats and people so far removed from the problems they are tasked with fixing that they can't possibly make informed decisions.