Lilburn should prepare for illegal signs
Lilburn will no doubt benefit from the Community Improvement District landscaping project described in (“Lilburn district expands litter, debris removal,” County-by-County, Jan. 1). I hope citizen volunteers will step up and fill in where municipal and county maintenance budgets fall short. If the Northlake-LaVista CID is any indication, be prepared to remove illegal signs daily. The $65 movers, carpet-cleaners, roofers, credit-repairers, junk car buyers, house buyers, work from home offers, and others, can’t wait to stick their illegal signs right in the middle of your pansies and petunias.
ALAN CHAMBERS, DECATUR
Big gov’t. does not equal good gov’t.
A letter-writer says that our government “is slow and inefficient by design” in (“Gov’t. should not be run like a business,” Readers Write, Jan. 2). Baloney! Certainly there are checks and balances between the three branches of government, but that doesn’t mean they have to be slow and inefficient. Running government like a business means cutting red tape, eliminating waste and fraud, getting rid of old programs and regulations that do nothing more than provide jobs for bureaucrats and opportunity for lobbyists and crony capitalists. The CEO, president, is responsible to the shareholder — citizens, and to the board of directors — Congress and the Supreme Court. He is a leader and a visionary, not a king. Obama forgot that. We want and need a modern, efficient, government that gets things done in its limited role, and gets out of the way in everything else. The “good old boy network” of Republicans and Democrats has gotten completely out of hand. Big government is not good government.
GRANT ESSEX, MILTON
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