A good man's ideas for reforming our government

My lifelong friend Mick Curran is a very different sort of political animal.

He's maybe one-third Bernie Sanders and one-third Paul Ryan. The other third I haven't been able to figure out yet.

To be fair he is a more honorable man than either of the stars mentioned above, and I have no doubt he would have been happier had he never turned his interests to politics.

Mick's primary philosophy is that he is against big government, big business and big labor.

I'm not going to say another word about that.

I am going to comment on a list of specifics he posted as a comment on a Facebook post of mine last night.

First, though, the last major party candidate Mick voted for was Ronald Reagan in 1984. Since then he has voted mostly for third-party wack jobs, although I have to admit he says he voted for me in one of those elections.

Thanks.

Anyway, last night I asked him how you take a nation of 320 million people and govern it as if it were Smallville.

Here's what he said with my comments:

"Less centralized power and more administrative responsibilities for states and localities."

Sounds good, but with different states being so different in what they do for their citizens, it's difficult to justify kids getting a better education because they live in one state than in another.