Jason Cannon
Unit 1-2
October 12, 2013
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865588257/US-will-weather-governance-problem-better-than-any-other-nation-former-Secretary-of-State-says.html?pg=1
Synopsis:
This article covered the speech Condoleezza Rice (a previous Secretary of State) gave in the 27th Annual Utah Women's Conference put on by Senator Hatch and his wife. In her speech, Rice talked about the United States system of government and how it would be able to handle the government problems it was now facing better than other nations. She said that the founding fathers set up "near perfect institutions" and that the federal system set up should help the country in solving the government problems. She covered several topics relating to the system and opportunities in the United States. It was a hopeful speech amid the discouraging situation the US is going through.
Comments / Detailed Analysis:
I think that Rice's comments were perfect for the situation we are in. Instead of bashing on the government and condemning the United States, she expressed confidence in our government and talked about all of the good things in the United States. When talking about the federal system of government and that the states and local governments should help, Rice said, "The states have become labs and incubators of reform and innovation in
almost every aspect of life — education, health care or transportation.
That's a good thing." The national gov can look at what the states are doing and can learn from their successful and unsuccessful systems.
Rice also talked about the ability of individuals in the United States to improve their conditions and rise up because of education. She said, "The crisis in K-12 education may be our single greatest national security threat." I think that this is a true statement as well and that much of the success of the United States rests upon the education of the people.
I was relieved to find a current event not talking about the consequences and details of the shutdown.
I like the positive feel of this post. It's a nice change from all the negative government-bashing posts that have been all over for the past couple of weeks. I think that our reforms for things like education, health care, and transportation are all good things. They show that we've found flaws in our current ways of doing things and we want to improve them. And education is definitely such an important thing, the education of ourselves and the rest of the American people should definitely be one of the top priorities.
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to see someone congratulate our nation's accomplishments as to forming one of the first forms of federalism. Though our separation of powers/checks and balances of our government technically allowed for us to get in the whole government shutdown mess, overall the separation of powers is a good thing and has done a lot of good in the past. Our nation's history could consist of more despairing abuses if not for our federalist form of government.
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