New Frontiers in Freeloading
13th September 2018
My question is: What business is it of the mayor’s whether or not people use the library? This strikes me as a telling indicator of the proglodyte tendency to spend far too much time worrying that other people might be spending their time in bad ways, i.e. ways of which the proglodyte doesn’t approve.
The function of a mayor, I think, is to make sure that the taxpayers’ money is spent in an honest, efficient, and effective manner. We do not look to the mayor for ideas on how taxpayer money ought to be spent; that is the job of the city council, which is why the two functions are split. Certainly a mayor can have ideas on what those spending priorities ought to be, and certainly most mayoral candidates run on a ‘platform’ of some sort, but the place where that determination is made is the city council. That is their job.
One of the most ugly characteristics of Democrats is their uncontrollable impulse to stick their noses in other people’s business.