Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.
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When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.
I don't think it's any secret that the public has lost confidence in the state government, and there's a lot of work that needs to be done on issues related to public integrity.
The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they'll help you get through the times when you fall short.
The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.
See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.
The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.
We should have a very limited federal government.
It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.
We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency.
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