Herbert,
>If the people of the US ever decide they want cancer cured, and put
>the appropriate pressure on their reps, it will get done. There may
>be lots of waste, duplication, and fraud. But it will get done. And
>when it is all done, plenty of critics will arise to tell us all how
>it could have been done better by somebody else. And Billions of
>dollars worth of air time will be spent complaining about it, and
>investigating it. Many jobs will be created in journalism, books
>written, speeches given, elections won and lost. But cancer will
>have been cured. Just like the many projects that our government has
>accomplished when we wanted them to.
When I saw that paragraph, I was reminded of advice attributed to Admiral Tojo prior to WWII. He was supposedly against going to war with the US. But if it had to be, his advice was to strike quick and hard and get it over with before the US decided to mobilize. He felt - as borne out by history - that once the US mobilized and decided to fight, the war would be lost for Japan. And lost it was. Amid an incredible amount of waste and inefficiency.
If the nation decided to treat this as the Manhattan Project of the Mission to the Moon, cancer would be cured in a decade. If not sooner. And our economy would be all the stronger for it in the end.
Just my personal opinion.
Thanks, Torben |
