Federal Government priorities

If the Federal government could only work on solving ONE problem, what would be the most important problem that should be given attention?

 

Poverty.

 

Illegal immigration and securing our borders.

 

Education !!!

 

I am with syd on this one...

 

Learning to multi task -_-

 

Thing is it’s rather silly to think of problems standing alone and not connected and intertwined with a myriad of other issues.

How can I put this simply….

The problem is the lack of fish in a river

Simple answer – re-stock fish

But that doesn’t deal with the pollution problem and the over fishing problem that caused the problem of the lack of fish so all the re-stocked fish get caught or poisoned.

Thing is that if people look at problems in a simplistic way the simplistic solution they may come up with might be of little or no good.

Most obvious problems are the symptom of other problems that might not be so clearly seen especially if you take a simplistic approach that doesn’t even think through the problem or look for causes.

 

I'll say it again, louder. EDUCATION!!!

 

The fact that the government is pretending it's a democracy and many people are buying it when really it's a totalitarian evil machine

 

The wolf said it--education. If ALL people were educated,their fully developed bull -shit detectors would enable them/us to obviate the bad and fascillitate the good. What's bad? What's good? Deep down--way,way down for some,we all know.

 

People who say this have no idea how offensive it is to people who actually live in totalitarian countries.

 

To re-stock the river you have the problem of knowing which fish to put into the river, where to get the fish to re-stock the river, how to best get the fish to the river...etc etc etc.
The problem still remains: Re-stocking the river.

 

I live above one. There will always be people to be offended by everything. Such is life.

 

Does/should the government "of the people,by the people,and for the people" have any obligation to the citizens of the vast ghettoes of american cities such as LA,Detroit,ect?

 

But you don't live in Burma, or North Korea, or Equatorial Guinea, or Sudan, or, well see where this is going?

 

And of course, short answers don't allow for long winded solutions.

 

^ Indeed...also, we must educate people to become Human participants( not Ferengi ) in our social and political system and work to make a difference.

Given full information, ordinary people acting on their best impulse can govern themselves.

 

Trouble is the federal Government cannot just work on regulating just any one problem. All the issues identified, poverty mitigation, public education, environmental protection, National security, and so on drift into the orbit of governance and public regulation out of necessity more often than not, rather than choice. Although their is constant tussle between these priorities, as is normal. The growth of the modern state mirrors the growth of industrial society more generally with all the challenges and problems that industrialization can pose for complex societies.

 

An interesting way of putting things which I think which is indicative of government's dilemma.
Problems are better solved, not regulated.

Public funding is beneficial. Regulation can be beneficial in some areas, education is not one of them.

I think the "growth of the state" mirrors the innate self preservation technique of preserving the status quo. The rich get richer.

 

The "state" is a racket, it demands "protection" money.