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Show i OPINIONS "3-n. I Preliminary problem assessment need I more four letter words I; j 1 We've finally come to the conclusion t that if we are ever to bring our elected lj officials back to reality and the repre- ij sentation of their constituents, we've got to :' teach the bureaucrats to speak a language they understand. For instance, during the past few years the bureaucrats have taken over most of f the decision -making on the federal, state J and local levels. S It started back in Washington, where j the politicians begin appointing so-called experts to positions, and setting up agencies to handle special problems because the j politicians there wasn't time to be all I things. Theoretically this was a fine idea so t long as the elected officials kept control. i But soon the feds found they could con - ; trol the state through these bureaucratic j' agencies. And the state, in order to retain i a share of power, formed their own agencies I to control the counties and cities. Then' ; , they lost all control and the bureaucrats took over. ' But really how did they accomplish f this revolution from elected representative j government to appointed regulatory govern - j ment? It's simple! The bureaucrats learned to talk a language lan-guage the elected representatives don't understand. A perfect example was last Thursday night. t Neil Christensen mesmerized the voting I body of the 'alunite council' with words like: Preliminary problem assessment, problem identification, resource assessment, com -munity impact assessment, process description, de-scription, work program finalize, assignments, assign-ments, growth projection alternatives develop, de-velop, community participation (that one had an arrow by -passing it), information gather and analyze and finalize assessment report. That's the bill of goods Christensen sold the 'alunite council' and there isn't a one of them that knows what he voted for. Now since there is no indication that any of these elected representatives have any intention of listening to reason, there seems to be only one alternative left. That, of course, is to teach Christensen Christen-sen a few four -letter words. Once they understand what he's saying, the problem will eliminate itself. And if they don't soon learn that he's feeding them a bunch of double -talk and toss 1 him "and' the"FCAG "out 6n"Tiis ear, we, as responsible citizens, had better start thinking think-ing about tossing the whole bunch out on their ear. But, there is little question that most of the fault is ours. Few of us attend meetings. meet-ings. We elect a man to office and forget him. Your absence and lack of comment is taken as approval. They honestly get to believing they are as smart as they think Neil Christensen is. One thing you can take for granted. Neil will never tell them how smart he thinks they are. "Red" |
