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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Very well done. And I see that a few of can't even talk about it without leaping into the same old trap of blaming "the other guys". Until you start blaming your own side, if you have one, you'll never accomplish anything.
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Agreed, but I would change the word "blame" into the phrase "holding accountable". In a relatively free market economy such as ours, government (correctly) has limited power. As such, it can and should do only so much. That being said, with the power that they DO have, they are accountable to taking responsible steps in addressing problems that do arise. And if, either by way of action or inaction, those problems are not addressed properly, the people involved need to be held accountable.
Unfortunately, the ever-present need to "spin" the facts into something palletable to what one agrees with rears its ugly head here, and instead of battling in the arena of ideas we fight it out by way of measuring the motivation of our ideological base.