On Tue, 22 May 2012 08:19:49 -0400, dgk wrote:

If, indeed, it is necessary and beneficial to most everyone, then let
them invest their dollars, not ours. If done well they could reap
untold rewards. As a result they would then be in the position to
create jobs for those needing work. Once that has cycle has begun,
the Beeman and his wife and the people they employ would no longer be
taking money from our government but they would be contributors to it.
And so on and so on...

Our government should not be allowed to subsidize every
industry-of-the-week just so they can buy votes. We shouldn't forget
GM, Solindra and all of the other bad decisions our fearless leaders
have made. Let the private sector provide the investment and when
they do it right they win and so does the rest of the country.

So a problem that affects all of us, because we all need the services
that bees provide, shouldn't be addressed by all of us? We have a way
of doing that, called government. That is all of us together, the
great American Experiment of participatory democracy. You know
something, if it doesn't work, then maybe we should slash the
"defense" budget and stop trying to export it all over the world.

There is only one flaw with your thinking. Your answer to all that is
wrong with us is socialism -- not government. Our real problem is too
much government.