Government is rarely thought of as innovative. Most people when asked about government think of red tape, bloat, bureaucracy and inefficiency. Innovation requires being nimble., able to change quickly and thinking outside the box. These are not government strong suits.
I believe I understand your perspective and you opinion about what most people think when asked this question.
I believe by design from our founding fathers government is not innovative, nor able to change things quickly it takes a long time to get anything done in government quickly for a reason, because our founding fathers understood people with bad intentions, would use that to their advantage. It’s exactly why the branches of government were created to constantly check each side and slow the process down to give time for debate and perspective.
I understand your perspective here.
Regardless of what we think about our country, it’s pretty clear we are admired for form of government all over the world, however, imperfect it may be.
No doubt about that.
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All good my friend.
When was the last time he literally spoke to you?
Take it in the context that Rickey meant. He wants to replace capitalism with government control. Says it's innovative also. Look around you. Look at the computer you're typing on. The car you drive. At best the government can support innovation with money. But the great leaps forward, the refinement, improvements in service, come from the profit incentive. The desire to make a good living, create wealth drives innovation. When you have a heavily centralized, government run economy such as the Soviet Union was that eliminates personal incentives in favor of doing everything for the collective things start falling apart. Shortages happen. Ricky deals in the realm of what might be, not the reality of what actually is. And forcing us all to suffer to chase after rainbows, as what is shaping up to happen with government mandates concerning energy, will ultimately destroy this country. A lot of wasted energy and misery to prove the capitalists are right.
But the federal level of government has condemned innovation as a threat to the status quo.
Today.
How are you privy to what Rickey meant?
I think moderate thinking is best for all.
Pleas explain.
I do not hold to think that immigration is an attack. A significant challenge yes, an attack hardly.
True, all the while trying to find ways to allow the rich(themselves and their friends) to pay less.
Read my post again, slowly if that helps.
How am I privy? I've been arguing with him for years. He has been denouncing capitalism in thousands of posts. Where have you been?
All good.
And yet your moderate thinking has led to support of abortion, gay rights, a dismissal of the Bible as a necessary component of Christianity. You have stated here that, even though it has been clearly stated what kind of material is being put in school libraries, who are we to decide what is obscene and what isn't. While I consider pics of a teenage boy performing oral sex on another teenage boy extremely inappropriate, if not criminal, to be made available to kids even in elementary schools, which is happening, the Left is calling that book banning like the Nazis. Yet you are quick to say who are we to say what is obscene? I think you need to call up God and have a heart to heart. He might point you to some of those Biblical passages you reject.
