A Citizen of the Republic

This author has some good points, but also makes some huge leaps that I disagree with. It is way too complex and has evolved through way too much to be this simple. For example, we didn't create the FDA because a child got sick. as the author claims. It was a result of the1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act, which was a culmination of 100 bills over 25 years that aimed to rein in long-standing, serious abuses in the consumer product marketplace. We might not always think they do a good job (I don't--I think they are too lax), but what if we didn't have them? We can rely on the food we buy thanks to them. We didn't create the DOE because children weren't performing well in schools. It was done to establish policy for and administer most federal assistance to education and enforce education laws on privacy & civil rights in schools. Could they leave it to every state? Sure. But the 2d and 3d order effects of that could be much worse than what we have. Could they decrease its numbers? Probably, and that applies to most places. Some "body" would still have to coordinate info across state lines for crime, no matter what you call it. So I disagree that all these solutions have caused the problems we have today. That cause and effect just doesn't make any sense to me. That's like saying my great great grandfather's transgressions are still the reason I sin. It all has a place--government bureaucracy (which wasn't supposed to be efficient), business, and the courts. If the baby needs a bath and you have dirty bathwater, you change the bathwater rather than throw out the baby. IMO

Thank you for the share Diane.