Voters approved a statewide measure requiring Kansas City to spend at least 25 percent of its general revenue on police. It’s the only city in the state with no control over how it’s policed.
Yeah, and I know this sounds trivial by comparison, but we had something similar here recently and it was a proposed ban on fox hunting that the government scooched away that the populous were wildly in favour of.
I have to say that if 25% of my city’s money was being spent on police I’d be making them earn their fucking money and you may infer from that what you will.
Imagine the opportunity cost. And guess who lost the most in that trade? The most vulnerable.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
The issue here is what to do when you have multiple levels of government. One government entity may be against a policy, but a larger government entity which includes the smaller entity may be for a policy.
This case is regarding police funding, but this could apply to school or welfare programs as well.
People support US police budgets for the same reason they support gun laws, mass deportation, fear of black or brown people when white people are becoming the minority in some regions.
So many people missing the damn point. We elect representatives but WE THE PEOPLE are still in charge. The fact that our reps bombed Iran does NOT absolve us of responsibility!!!
not at that size, no. yes they all have addresses and put their pants on one leg at a time, but they are capitalists before anything else, including the people who voted for them.
which means they are no longer human - they are pieces of shit.
If two-thirds of a populace is opposed to something, and their government approves it anyway. Then their government is illegitimate.
Yep. Most governments are illegitimate
Yeah, and I know this sounds trivial by comparison, but we had something similar here recently and it was a proposed ban on fox hunting that the government scooched away that the populous were wildly in favour of.
I have to say that if 25% of my city’s money was being spent on police I’d be making them earn their fucking money and you may infer from that what you will.
Imagine the opportunity cost. And guess who lost the most in that trade? The most vulnerable.
Core concept, really.
The issue here is what to do when you have multiple levels of government. One government entity may be against a policy, but a larger government entity which includes the smaller entity may be for a policy.
This case is regarding police funding, but this could apply to school or welfare programs as well.
Seems pretty legit to me. Must be if people aren’t up in arms about
People support US police budgets for the same reason they support gun laws, mass deportation, fear of black or brown people when white people are becoming the minority in some regions.
It all reached a critical point with Obama.
People forget that the people and the government are the same fucking thing.
No. People forget that the people and their government are totally separate.
The US hasn’t bombed Iran. The government of the US has, despite the protest of its people.
So many people missing the damn point. We elect representatives but WE THE PEOPLE are still in charge. The fact that our reps bombed Iran does NOT absolve us of responsibility!!!
Like the Nuremberg trials…" Wasn’t me…I was just following orders"
LOL…the people who voted Trump, or don’t vote at all.
Not voting is supporting Fascism. Sorry, American people do not get a pass after electing Trump twice.
not at that size, no. yes they all have addresses and put their pants on one leg at a time, but they are capitalists before anything else, including the people who voted for them.
which means they are no longer human - they are pieces of shit.