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Local Government viewed more favorably than national

Ryan Gilroy
Aug 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM
By Ryan Gilroy

Our Founders reveled in localized control over politics.  The national government was created to possess only a few, specific, and defined powers, while state politics were meant to be more important.  Localized government was the order of the day and the differences between states were meaningfully based on local preferences.

Pew Research shows that while state and local governments have declined in most Americans' estimation over the last few years, favorability toward national government has fallen at a much faster rate.   Could we see a sudden surge of the states and local authorities telling D.C. to whistle off -- or are we still trying govern this country as if one size fits all? 

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Good post, Ryan.  This is really interesting -- though it's too bad they didn't offer an option to rate government in general.

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Submitted by Bonnie Kristian on August 18, 2009.

Thanks, I graduated with a BA in American Studies and I realized something truly unique that I wanna do a study on.  One Size Does NOT fit all, or rather it's amazing how America truly was built squarely around this idea, and despite the attempts of the War Between the Several States, we still have bursts of it happening little by little seeing our diction from around the country isn't even uniform.  Look at our language for certain projects like what do you define Coca-Cola as: soda, pop, soft drinks, cola and etc. We can't even create one size fits all for one word.

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Submitted by Ryan Gilroy on August 18, 2009.

The horrendous quantity of words used for carbonated beverages is severely harming our economy by driving the cost of these drinks up, and creating more homeless people, and endangering fruit flies.  The federal government should mandate that only one word shall be used, and enforce this by "nationalizing" the dictionary industry.  Think of the thousands of jobs this enforcement would create!  They should also ban soda advertizements directed at "old people", since cigarrette advertizements directed at "young people" are now illegal.

- Keynes Jr.      :D

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