On Tue, 22 May 2012 14:48:23 -0400, dgk wrote:

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.

Our government is us. Us. The people. We vote them in. I think our
government should be finding the reason for the honey bee decline, and
if that reason is something be produced by private corporations, like
an insecticide, then the private corporation should be made to rectify
the situation. This is, by the way, interstate commerce, just for
Mormon's sake.

Let me see if I understand your point of view. You think all tax
payers should pay higher taxes for only some of us to benefit (the
industry-of-the-week). You don't want some of the unemployed to be
able to get a job and begin to turn their lives around. You want the
unemployed to remain dependent on the government (all of us, your
words) for ever.

On the other hand, you don't like my idea where taxpayers would be
able to pay lower taxes and all of us will benefit.

Is that what you are saying?