Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just ended a tax audit. No, no courtesy, no understanding just what I > expected. I know I was unlucky zI did not get one of the southern gentlemen > you have experienced. > It was a middle aged black southern woman at the IRS. But the others there all seemed professional. > But really my point is that the ideal situation when there is check and > balance between different groups like you say government executives and > politicians and voters-does not exists. > Oh, it definitely does. On more than one occasion I have called the offices of elected officials with problems. Believe me, they are responsive! They call the bureaucracy and the bureaucrats dispatch a work crew to fix the problem. The last thing a local politician wants is some middle-aged guy in a good neighborhood complaining to the Atlanta Journal about a sewer leak, unsafe conditions near a primary school, or something like that. I don't call them for trivial reasons with stupid complaints. The government may ignore poor people, but it responds to calls from my zip code. - Jed
