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Thursday, September 13, 2012

We Can do Better!

I've got to admit I am slow, but it has just dawned on me to new progressive catch phrase is "we can do better!" My simple question is better than what? We can spend more tax dollars on government waste? We can encourage more rebellion overseas? We can abandon more democracies in the Middle East? We can drive a bigger wedge in our society?

Can someone tell me what we, or our government, can do better at? I am open to suggestions here, just one request, please tell me how much more you are willing to pay for it.

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The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"  Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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