I was researching something and stumbled across some more florid than usual language by Judge Mote in an Indiana Supreme Court case from 1967:
This Nation and its local units of government have come upon hard times. Depressions, wars, lack of exercise of governmental talent, political, social and economic maneuvering have taken their toll. Increased spending, waste and outright mismanagement, or worse, by the Central Government almost have crushed the back of the American taxpayer in attempting to satisfy the voracious appetite of the bureaucrats who appear to have produced a super government and have become untouchable. As a result, the physical plants of our local governmental units-our schools, highway systems and streets, public buildings, sanitation departments, water resources and almost every enterprise of such nature-are completely inadequate or worn out. Necessity for finding new means of providing continuously inflated dollars to maintain and improve the local public facilities for an ever expanding and demanding population has created almost insurmountable problems. The final outcome may be doubtful, but we now find ourselves on a treadmill from which there appears to be no escape until and unless the hearts and minds of men and women resolve honestly and sincerely, with a really dedicated purpose, affirmatively to do whatever may be necessary to halt the changes in governmental concept now so apparent to objective thinkers. This will not be easy; it will be worth the effort.
Hawkins v. City of Greenfield, 230 N.E.2d 396, 411 (Ind. 1967).
The case was brought by a taxpayer seeking an injunction against Greenfield and its Economic Development Commission preventing the appropriation of funds for the economic development commission, the issuance of economic development bonds, and a variety of other expenses associated with the economic development commission. The Court refused to grant the injunction finding that the economic development activity was within the authority granted by the legislature and not in violation of the Indiana or U.S. Constitutions.
Those Articles of Confederation were a socialist plot !
This part is the best – The final outcome may be doubtful, but we now find ourselves on a treadmill from which there appears to be no escape until and unless the hearts and minds of men and women resolve honestly and sincerely, with a really dedicated purpose, affirmatively to do whatever may be necessary to halt the changes in governmental concept now so apparent to objective thinkers.