And we needed a modern Interstate Highway System to vastly help commerce. No one had the money to do that so the government stepped in for the overall betterment of all.
What evidence do you have that no one had the money to create an interstate highway system? When the fed did it where did the money come from? Why from the citizens of the states, that's where. So obviously the state had the money.
And without Federal set asides and funding the national Park system would today be a corporate oil field or owned and used for any number of other industrialized business uses other than nature and wildlife.
That again is conjecture. If the fed could create a park and not let an oil company use it then clearly a state in which the park exists could do the same thing.
And millions & millions of Americans would have died waiting on someone else to do it. The Black Plague and many other things were able to spread rampantly in history because there was no good, well funded, centralized disease study & control organization.
We are in the middle of a pandemic (thankfully not deadly) right now and none of the kings horses are stopping it.
Your notion that million would have died without a fed health system is pure conjecture. Where is your evidence that the states would not have state of the art systems - which they did have.
Are you aware that in the middle ages there was a centralized system for dealing with the black plague? You can't get much more "federal" than a monarchy. It didn't do much good, not because it did not exist, but because it was the middle ages.
Well when that possible Armageddon asteroid gets on the grid coming at us I'm thinking I want to have space knowledge and a lot of it. I want to know when it's still far enough away to do something about it and have a capability to do something about it. I can guarantee you this... Muskets ain't gonna get the job done.
Uh right.
Plus you don't know at all what we may find or learn in space. We might find a new fuel or a place to store toxic waste. Necessity is the mother of invention. And who knows what our future necessity may be.
I'm not going to advocate Americans give up their real liberty for that dream.
I think it's well established that we need more than just a defensive force. It's the justification for deployment and the lust to Nation Build that is the general reoccurring problem.
I think this is worthy of it's own thread.
Maybe pick up a book on the Dust Bowl sometime... Hoover wasn't doing squat... and that was a problem. He felt it was up to just the states under duress. And then it spread & spread at times coating ships way offshore outside of New York harbor with dust three quarters of an inch thick.
The dust bowl was caused by both drought and poor farming.
It seems to me that the federal gov acted extensively withe little results UNTIL THE DROUGHT ENDED:
"During President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first 100 days in 1933, governmental programs designed to conserve soil and restore the ecological balance of the nation were implemented. Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes established the Soil Erosion Service in August 1933 under Hugh Hammond Bennett. In 1935 it was transferred and reorganized under the Department of Agriculture and renamed the Soil Conservation Service. More recently it has been renamed the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).[15]
Additionally, the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation (FSRC) was created after more than six million pigs were slaughtered to stabilize prices. The pigs went to waste. The FSRC diverted agricultural commodities to relief organizations. Apples, beans, canned beef, flour and pork products were distributed through local relief channels. Cotton goods were later included, to clothe the needy.[16]
In 1935, the federal government formed a Drought Relief Service (DRS) to coordinate relief activities. The DRS bought cattle in counties which were designated emergency areas, for $14 to $20 a head. Animals unfit for human consumption - more than 50 percent at the beginning of the program - were destroyed. The remaining cattle were given to the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation (FSRC) to be used in food distribution to families nationwide. Although it was difficult for farmers to give up their herds, the cattle slaughter program helped many of them avoid bankruptcy. "The government cattle buying program was a God-send to many farmers, as they could not afford to keep their cattle, and the government paid a better price than they could obtain in local markets."[17]
President Roosevelt ordered the Civilian Conservation Corps to plant a huge belt of more than 200 million trees from Canada to Abilene, Texas to break the wind, hold water in the soil, and hold the soil itself in place. The administration also began to educate farmers on soil conservation and anti-erosion techniques, including crop rotation, strip farming, contour plowing, terracing, and other improved farming practices.[18][19] In 1937, the federal government began an aggressive campaign to encourage Dust Bowlers to adopt planting and plowing methods that conserved the soil. The government paid the reluctant farmers a dollar an acre to practice one of the new methods. By 1938, the massive conservation effort had reduced the amount of blowing soil by 65 percent. Nevertheless, the land failed to yield a decent living. In the fall of 1939, after nearly a decade of dirt and dust,
rain finally came."
In summary, the bowl was caused by both drought and poor farming. Hoover, a geologist, did nothing, Roosevelt did a lot but had little results at huge expense,
until it rained.
The evidence is simply that it wasn't being done at all at the time it desperately needed to be done.
Go ahead and name some fed gov program that was not being done before, was desperately needed, and could not have been done by the states or indivuals. So far you have not.
