Why doesn't the US do anything GREAT anymore. Why are we not leading the world in some project to make the world a better place?
During the Civil War Lincoln started the building of the transcontinental railroad. Teddy Roosevelt gave us the Panama Canal and the National Park System. Franklin Roosevelt gave America the Manhatten Project which produced the BOMB and more inportantly the first nuclear reactor. Eisenhower was responsible for the Federal Interstate Highway System. Kennedy led America and the world to the moon.
What major undertaking have we taken on since? Why wasn't America the first country to have a bullet train? Why are France and Japan ahead of us in these areas?
Why is America now a do nothing country (Wars and military action excluded, of course)? Why has America chosen to be a follower (and a damn poor one at that) rather than a world leader in some endeavor other than making war?
Think about it. Name the landmark achievements of Carter, Reagan, G. Bush, Clinton, GWB, and Obama.
Why do you only count government actions? Don't private achievements count? How many lives do you think have been saved by CT and MRI scanners or the advances in cancer treatments. And as mind boggling as that is, it barely scratches the surface of technological advancement when you look a advances in energy exploration and other commercial advancements. If you always look to government for satisfaction you should get used to being disappointed.
He doesn't count private achievements because he's a libturd who is trying to justify some massive spending program. He also doesn't count the internet, the cell phone, the flat screen TV. He doesn't count GPS, which is one of the greatest inventions of all time. He Doesn't count the artificial heart, artificial joints, laser eye surgury or other medical advances. The libturd isn't interested in advances that actually benefit humanity. He only cares about boondoggles that politicians can strut and thump their chests over.
Umm... GPS and the internet were brought about with massive government involvement through grants and the military. And you can thank NASA for alot of the tech advances of the last 30 years.
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