Are Some Haters Of Government Sensing The Looming Regeneracy?

[Kinser79]

(03-19-2017, 12:27 PM)Odin Wrote:

(03-17-2017, 11:48 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(03-17-2017, 11:32 AM)beechnut79 Wrote: If you were to ask me, I would tell you that the Grand Funk (with all apologies to the classic rock band) aka National Malaise is still very much with us and even worse than ever under the Carter years. At least then people went out and kicked up their heels at the discos, where today you can hardly find a dance club even in a large metro region. This despite the intense popularity of the "Dancing with the Stars" TV show.

Yep.  If anything, the National Malaise has become the new normal.  The feeling that we can't get anything done has become a conviction that we shouldn't try to get anything done.

People have come to assume any attempt to get anything done is just the "government wasting their money", it's dangerous, pathological cynicism.

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.

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.