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Originally Posted by August
Did you bother to write your congress critters and complain? Letter to the editor of your local newspaper? Do anything but roll over and take it?
Our system only works when we let our elected officials know our minds in no uncertain terms. Maybe they'll ignore it but your opinion still has to be made known to them and in no uncertain terms or else they'll figure you agree with their direction and ram it to you even more.
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I wrote my Congressman once. I was told they are "looking into it".
I also caught our county executive in a lie. Our creek has high ecoli content. After "five years" of "study" it was determined the neighborhoods surrounding the creek has dog crap run off that is the cause for high ecoli content in the creek. In the meantime the county quietly repaired the cities main crap pipe that was cracked and feeding a tributary to the the creek for years. Not to mention the crap pump station that overflows crap when it rains. The pump station is just yards from the creek. You know what the country answer was for the "doggie crap" run off? Crap collection bags and a trash can. The real answer was the city crap pipe spilling gallons of raw sewerage in to the creek. The creek feeds the Chesapeake Bay. Does the county want that plastered all over the newspapers? Not really. Blame it on Fido.
I can go into detail on a certain road in Stewartstown PA that was fought tooth and nail but the citizens lost the battle because the road was more convenient for the city offical who's house just happened to be at the end of the newly opened road.
In short, I have little faith in our government. Letters are nice. They get things off your chest. IMO not much more.