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Today he writes about the government's lack of preparation for terrorism, Ebola outbreak, etc. He starts this with this great analogy.
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Imagine two cities. In City A, town leaders notice that every few weeks a house catches on fire. So they create a fire department — a group of professionals with prepositioned firefighting equipment and special expertise. In City B, town leaders don’t create a fire department. When there’s a fire, they hurriedly cobble together some people and equipment to fight it.
We are City B. We are particularly slow to build institutions to combat long-running problems.
.He then goes on to bemoan that our "city" hasn't funded the fire department enough. Terrorism, illness. No shit.
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People like him have spent decades telling us that there is no role for government. That anything they do is done better by private business. That government shouldn't support clean air, clean water, or basically anything. Government is, according to him , the problem.
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To turn around now and pretend that government is doing nothing and "gee golly why?" is disingenuous.
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