This is awesome! CHVRCHES continues to impress.
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So the PATRIOT Act still sucks
Funny, last time I checked, liberals didn’t like the PATRIOT Act. Don’t we have the right to privacy? The Obama Administration apparently doesn’t agree. This is a great example of how once powers are given to the government, they are never relinquished, as even those who vehemently opposed the PATRIOT Act are now using its most controversial provisions.
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Ethical models don’t help the bottom of the pyramid
Introduction
Nearly every country in the world has people living in what the world bank calls “absolute poverty.” According to ThinkQuest, 2.7 billion people were living on less than $2 per day and 1.1 billion people were living on less than $1 per day as of 2001.
This is regarded by many as a problem, especially considering that there are other very wealthy and industrialized countries, creating an income disparity. Even those considered to be poor in wealthy countries are living at a standard well above those in true poverty elsewhere across the globe.
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Government should be on the record
This is awesome. The government, as a public agency, should rarely be hiding things from the public. There is a place for secrecy. There is sensitive information that the public should not know. That said, for literally 99% of government dealings, they shouldn’t need to go off the record. News outlets keep government accountable, as even President Obama recently said. There’s no place for off the record meetings when addressing a scandal that involves suppressing the press. Good on you New York Times.
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Scandals
If Teapot Dome destroyed Harding’s presidency’s reputation, and Watergate actually ended Nixon’s presidency, the IRS, media and Benghazi scandals almost make certain that Obama’s presidency will go down in history as a total disaster.
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Innovation and Government
This is even more interesting seeing as it’s coming from Harvard. Bottom-Up, innovative solutions are the answers to the problems that our country and our government faces.
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Always the last to know
Seems like our president is never really informed about what his administration is doing. Between the IRS scandal, Benghazi and the media surveillance, he claims that he was either informed late, didn’t have a say in the decision making process, or best yet, found out from the same news sources we did. Either he’s lying, which would suck, or government is simply too big. Shouldn’t government be small enough so that the head of the executive branch knows what it’s doing?
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Fun Fact:
Both Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush could be in jail for their past drug usage, had they gotten caught. I wonder what other potential-filled, otherwise law-abiding citizens drug prohibition is preventing from contributing to society?
Salutary Neglect 