Work with Gary for More Community, Less Olympia

One of the reasons that resources and money need to be moved out of Olympia and Washington DC is that the concentration of power in one place encourages crony capitalism. A good example of this is how easily that the large fast food companies got waivers from the most onerous provisions of the health care bill. Waivers also include health care plans of  union members. When dealing with a large bureaucracy, a large organization has an advantage that small businesses and communities always lack.

Politicians always give lip services to small business and communities. Democrats waste no opportunity to bash big business, but politicians of all stripes, especially Democrats, who passed this most recent bill, are the first to protect large corporations because those organizations have the visible political and economic clout to help or hurt them.  The small business and local community who has to live by these rules are ignored.

Who has more resources to deal with the onerous reporting provisions of legislation, large or small businesses, a large union or a small community? The large organizations, of course.  Yet, those same larger organizations are protected by the powerful who want their support. The small business people, who make up most of our economy and virtually all our job growth potential, are left to shoulder the burden with our local communities who deliver the government services we need.

Is this equal protection of the law? Isn't it obvious that if a law has adverse effects on a large organization that it has an even more serious impact on small organizations? This is the kind of behavior that makes more and more American cynical about government and our ability to get a fair shake.