03-20-2017, 06:24 PM
(03-20-2017, 07:18 AM)Odin Wrote:(03-19-2017, 03:54 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Let us assume that it is cyicism. Have you ever stopped to consider that there may be a reason for that cynicism? A lot of governmental programs don't accomplish what they set out to do. Many make the problem worse, and some are just plain stupid.
Then you find out what went wrong and try something else, you don't just throw up your hands and go "might as well not try", what kind of weak-minded defeatist attitude is that???
(03-19-2017, 03:54 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Despite being accused of being a Libertarian all the time on this board I still think there is a place for government in the US. I just think that places is Tallahassee, or Bismark or Jefferson City and not Washington DC.
That works fine for large and populous states, or for states that are small but densely populated or where the vast majority of the population is concentrated in one metropolitan area; but in a lot of the more rural red states the tax base just isn't there and federal help is needed to keep things from going to shit.
And if you have seen North Dakota state government you would rather have Washington running things than that bunch of morons, loons, and crooks in Bismarck.
You have a point Odin. Oklahoma is a poor rural state which needs all the help it can get . A fact that seems to be ignored by our local contingent of rough individualists. Oklahoma has an inland port, The Port of Catoosa, 3 through interstate highways, and needs passenger rail, like real bad.
Oklahoma has problems with hypocritical moralists.
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