Living Within Our Means

liberty was sacrificed. But the real issuenwas initiative, not liberty. The "emergency"nreplacement of the "schoolndistrict-county-state-federal" decisionmakingnpyramid by the widening cobwebnof federal agencies not only representedna real shift in power and authority,nbut it also came to mean that sourcesnoutside the immediate experience ofnthe citizen began their . . .