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Originally Posted by waste gate
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What does surprise me is that he just exercised his first Presidential veto, after 6 years of being a Congressional rubber stamp, to veto federally funded stem cell research. Not that this stops other countries from doing it mind you, but this is an area that the US could be a very big player with all the brain power and bucks there, bringing the fruits of this international research effort to bear that much sooner now.
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Nor does it stop private industry from working with stem cells.
New Orleans; couldn't evacuate its people,
U.S. couldn't evacuate its people from Lebenon.
The lesson seems to be do not let Gov't do things tha private industry can do better ala Halibutron, MicroSoft, US Steel, General Motors, the Mom and Pop down the road. |
That certainly isn't the lesson. Private industry doesn't do things better than government just because America has no real social safety net. If anything private industry has proven to be inefficient in doing anything except that which is profitable to them. Since the American government these days is being led by CEOs (along with many other govts) and is behaving in the best interests of, surprise!, their close associates the good of the people is left in the dust. Plenty of governments do a bang up job of taking care of its citizens. The US is just so conservative that the second you spend a dollar not on the military you are a heathen.