| From: | <tstmastr(at)rio.com> |
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| Date: | Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:09:46 -0700 |
| Subject: | Re: [WDDM] ..... |
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Hi, Jim. I find this very interesting.
I'd like to draft a questionnaire for you to consider. First, however, I
will need to know more about your community. Is it a town, city, county,
state? Nation? And do you have any information about its current
budget...where it gets its revenue, how much from each source, etc. And
how this revenue is spent...how much for each of several general categories,
e.g. education, roads, health care, police, administration, agriculture,
etc. I realize this is complicated, but government is. Government
oversees all these areas. I believe one of the first steps in polling the
public is to ask them to become informed of these economic and area issues of
government and then ask them if they want these basics adjusted, e.g. a 5%
increase in one area and a 3% decrease in another. In the United States,
for example, most people want a decrease in military spending and an increase in
other areas, such as natural resource management and general
services. At the county level, they want affordable higher education and
housing and family wage jobs more than they want improved public safety or
roads. So, tell me what you can about the level of government you are
considering and the basics of economics and areas for which government
revenue is spent. Then I can draft a questionnaire that you can examine
and adjust. Once this is done, we'd need to decide how you could present
it to a random sample of citizens to fill out. Then we'd need
to tabulate the results and analyze them statistically.
Best regards,
Bill.
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