[PRCo] Re: Europe ....

[Schneider Fred]

When I was the director of the Pennsylvania State Occupational  
Information Coordinating Committee, I remember my counterpart from  
Nevada telling me her sole intention was to work herself out of a  
job.   She explained that Nevada had only two labor market areas of  
any importance and once she figured out how to put them onto a data  
base, there would be nothing else to do.  She probably did too.

I never ceased to be amazed how those small states could get so much  
work done while California, Pennsylvania, Texas, New York, New Jersey  
and Illinois could spend for ever wrangling about how they couldn't  
do a job.   Before we could get to first base, those small state  
states like Nevada, Wyoming and Montana would be done and then would  
turn around and bid on extra projects that the federal Bureau of  
Labor Statistics might have that would keep their staff busy and  
would earn them extra money.   Part of it was their small population  
demanded less and part was the old axiom of "you don't get rich when  
everyone is watching."   Their people didn't have the luxury of  
sitting down and goofing off because you can't do that when there are  
only a handful of you.

Maybe the sad thing is that we cannot divide the country up into  
2,000 independent municipalities or states and restore small  
government instead of three or four layers of government.  I can see  
only two things for which we need a federal government: defense and  
interstate commerce and sometimes I even wonder about them because  
defense turns into offense and commerce then rules offense.

On Oct 16, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Bill Robb wrote:

>> I think it is Montana that has a state legislature that meets once  
>> every 2
>> years.  I consider the Pennsylvania legislature to be the most out of
>> control state government in the nation.
> I've heard that Nevada is every two years.
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