[PEN-L:8747] A Book on US Govt.? (was California Green Party Assembly Representive)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Were I a literary agent or an editor, I'd propose that Michael Hoover write
a book on US Govt. The title may be something like, _Doing Less with More:
A Case agaisnt Decentralization_ or _Encyclopedia Americana: Everything You
Wanted to Ask about the US Government (but Will Be Aghast to Discover)_.
Yoshie

>> Why should public transit "run at a profit"?  The fire department doesn't.
>> Gene Coyle
>>
>> Michael Hoover wrote:
>> > today, state (47%) and federal (9%) subsidied make up majority of
>> > public transit revenues with fares and ads contributing the rest...
>> > but operations lost money even at peak of public transit ridership
>> > earlier in 20th century...so to get advantages - convenience,
>> > punctuality, speed, lower oil costs, reduced pollution - it may
>> > not be possible to demand that public transit systems run at a
>> > profit...   Michael Hoover
>
>it shouldn't, which was point of my previous post, but all analogies
>being suspect, well...
>
>90% of US fire departments are comprised either entirely or mostly
>of volunteers (protecting 42% of nation's population)...of remainder,
>more than a few are operated on a contracting out, for-profit basis..
>.Rural/Metro of Scottsdale, AZ is 'industry' leader with more than
>150 contracts with communities around the country (they've been in the
>fire protection 'business' for 50 years)...   Michael Hoover