This reminded me of something I studied a while back.
What was one of the biggest contributing factors to the development of economic strength and technological discovery in the US, Europe, and parts of Asia after world war 2?
The establishment and strengthening of democracy and freedom focused political and government institutions during and soon after WW2.
They brought people together to work together on a mass scale.
The CDC was one of these institutions.
None of these government institutions are perfect, and checks and balances should be used on them. They do need constant improvement of efficiency and integrity.
But this Trump administration is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Completely removing government institutions or disabling them without providing a good replacement at least on the federal or state level is going to have impacts discussed in this article.
I bet most people don’t know the Chemical Safety Board exists, and yet it helps to consistently investigate industrial chemical accidents and to require improvement in industry standards. It is an independent federal agency!
This reminded me of something I studied a while back.
What was one of the biggest contributing factors to the development of economic strength and technological discovery in the US, Europe, and parts of Asia after world war 2?
The establishment and strengthening of democracy and freedom focused political and government institutions during and soon after WW2.
They brought people together to work together on a mass scale.
The CDC was one of these institutions.
None of these government institutions are perfect, and checks and balances should be used on them. They do need constant improvement of efficiency and integrity.
But this Trump administration is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Completely removing government institutions or disabling them without providing a good replacement at least on the federal or state level is going to have impacts discussed in this article.
I bet most people don’t know the Chemical Safety Board exists, and yet it helps to consistently investigate industrial chemical accidents and to require improvement in industry standards. It is an independent federal agency!
This reminds me of Timothy Snyder, who makes the good point in his book The Road to Unfreedom that we become less free when we become dumber.