How 9/11 Exposed the Problems of Government

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I'm 18, so i might be a little young.. but i wanna be a lawyer and i noticed some interesting facts.
1- even the people who comment this are biased toward the "liberal" or "conservative"
2- they critize with out stating what they feel would be a better solution.
now, i'm nowhere near qualified to come up with a better solution, but i'm not critizing anyone elses ideas either.
but yes,
somethings need to change.
only question is can our public do it with out the party lines that so many of you rely on to be your crutch when you know very little about a topic?

Lanna of MN 11:36AM November 03, 2009

evidently the federal government is not too big to fail. what we need is legislators who know how to craft sensible, ie workable, solutions. what we have is politicians who worry about being re elected. I'm not sure the state level is much better. given the present uncivil discourse we may hope the federal government will draft guidelines and leave it to the states to implement. except for the national defense: what book discusses that???

Anne Hess of NY 4:52PM October 19, 2009

Mr. Farmer states: "What happened on 9/11 was simply a trailing consequence of all the malfunctions of government that had occurred in the prior 10 years."
While Bill Clinton was getting his Lewinsky, Al Queda was bombing its way around the world including the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, our two embassies in Africa, Khobar Towers, and the USS Cole.
The overall lesson here is that government is ineffective and cannot be relied upon.
It could not prevent 9/11, it could not respond properly to hurricane Katrina, it cannot administer Social Security or Medicare properly, it could not encourage home-ownership without wrecking the financial markets, and it certainly cannot manage universal health care.
The solution is to push responsibility for most everything but national security back to the States and let people take care of their own instead of forcing Americans to accept decisions made by bureaucrats sitting in offices in Washington DC.

Mike Constitution of FL 9:28PM October 18, 2009

So sad to hear that your character will shortly be assainated. You spoke poorly of the GOP, Commander Decieder Guy, and there support team. You must therefore be nothing more then a tool for the liberals and the liberal press. Damn the facts.

JDZ57 of WI 3:49PM October 16, 2009