As in "public servant" or "civil service"???? :-) Ellen Ellen Hornig Seneca Hill Perennials 3712 County Route 57 Oswego NY 13126 USA http://www.senecahillperennials.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hannon" <othonna@gmail.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Big Government > The fact that agencies at local and state levels are staffed by people who > are not directly accountable to the voters necessarily puts citizen and > business owner alike at a disadvantage. Same with USDA/DHS. Not that they > should be made directly accountable, but we could use a better system of > accountability for cases like this iris farm. Our elected representatives > are swamped. It is not like a shoe store where we can move on to the next > one if we don't like the service. Therefore they have a special obligation > to draw from common sense in applying the laws and regulations. I don't > think they get any training in the former. > > Dylan Hannon > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/