Why Local Town Meetings are Key to Budget Accountability

001the reason why I've named this show for this for years we have a local town meeting and the town has the opportunity to come sit in a room and vote up or down on the budget and if there's questions on the budget people are welcome to come up to the microphone and speak to the moderator and and have the town manager and the board of Selectmen answer questions about the budget why we can't do that on the federal level is just because we've become lazy and we've become complacent and that's why we have these huge deficits that we have now the party the parties have become I say parties just to be inclusive have become giant moneya laundering machines uh for whatever cause they feel is more most appropriate but it's all based on political power is what they're trying to do and it's our money as taxpayers and