89%

 Marie Perez ( Washington 3rd district Congressperson) said in a recent interview: politicians and media talk about the top 1% and the bottom 10% and a lot of the time they forget about the other 89%.

As part of the 89%, I'm going to give some of my ideas of what I expect out of government and then why the 89% matters.

On the local level, there's 3 things cities need to do: provide clean water, working sewers, good streets. Everything else is gravy.

On the state level, back in the day, if you broke down on the highway, you knew within a half hour a State Patrol would show up. Now, you never know. So, fund a 24/7 state patrol.

On the federal level, the less we see or hear of the federal government, the better.

Now those are my ideas. I'm  sure other people in the 89%, will have different ideas. But the common denominator is that people expect government to show a level of basic competency. 

It's not that we don't care that the top 1% is oblivious to everyone else or that the bottom 10% deserve some hands up. But the price of everything is going up and no matter what they say about taxing the rich, the tax bills are so full of loopholes, that the rich still end up paying nothing and the bulk of taxes falls on the 89%. And you can only get so much blood out of a turnip. Money gets thrown at everything under the sun, there is no accountability and nothing gets done.

And right now, the competency level of government at any level is close to zero. So just Keep It Simple. Do the basic stuff and keep things stable, then the politicians can work on all their pet projects.