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A debate afterthought
I've been dreadfully sick for the past few days, so I've been doing lots of thinking while stuck in my bed. After reviewing my notes from Tuesday's debate, I realized that there was one major point I was unable to make due to time constraints. Here it is:
USD Dems President Chris Berry, in response to a question about the economy, stated that the government should have a role akin to its role in health care and education.
This puzzled me. Health care and education are two of the biggest governmental failures around! At the very least, they're the two issues the Democrats are most upset about.
Let me get this straight. They bellyache about health care and education, although they LIKE what's wrong with them- excessive government involvement. Now they want to force that same failed idea onto the economy?
This is just not logical. When will they learn that, as the amount of government intervention increases, the worse the systems become?
-Matt Hittle
Posted at 11:57AM Feb 07, 2008 by College Republicans in University of South Dakota | Comments[2]
I said that and the current mess our economy in has little to do with government involvement in the market.
And the idea of investing in education and healthcare as a way to avoid a recession is becoming a popular idea among economist. Government involvement in the market is not always a bad thing. In fact, it can be quite helpful.
Posted by RCDEM on February 07, 2008 at 12:26 PM CST #
Ah, first of all, I'm sorry- I thought it was Chris, not Ryan.
Second, yes, government involvement CAN be a good thing. However, if you examine the immense detriment that EXCESS government involvement has had in health care in education, it quickly becomes obvious that this massive government involvement is not a good thing.
Also, I don't really think that there's anything we can do to stop the recession. In fact, we really won't know for sure that we're even in one until it's practically over. I don't think that the stimulus package will help- except to help expand the debt hole we're digging.
With regard to education, as we've all seen, simply throwing money at problems won't make them go away. What would this cash be used for? Appeasing the teachers' unions? That's where Democratic education policy is usually aimed.
Posted by Matt Hittle on February 07, 2008 at 01:41 PM CST #