Today I am happy because I finally have a short way of saying what I tend to be long winded about - what it is I want from government.
I heard this from Heather Cox Richardson during one of her Facebook talks today.
Here are the four things:
1) Regulate businesses
2) Provide a basic social safety net
3) Promote infrastructure
4) Protect civil rights
And that's it. Everything else, even the military, falls under those four categories (you can't provide a basic social safety net if no one's safe because we don't have a military, right?).
Now I am going to memorize these four key items so I can spout them out next time someone asks me what I think government should be doing, or why I am in favor of a strong government.
That seems to cover most of it. Where did you find the girl reading the book?
ReplyDeleteI created it with Microsoft's CoPilot. I asked it to make me a cartoon of an older woman reading a book and that's one of the 4 it created.
DeleteI really like Heather Cox Richardson. I'm going to borrow this from you!
ReplyDeleteBrava!
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