State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.
And we're in the middle of a 'perfect storm.' These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.
What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.
I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policies helped produce massive income inequality by lopsided breaks for the super wealthy.
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.
What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.
You know there's problems - you can see all the poverty and so on - but it's quite another matter to know what you can do about it.
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