BTTT
I have this entire essay saved on my FR page just in case it disappeared from other sources.
Yeah - good stuff. This could be Obama speaking:
“In one of his Fireside Chats, after the first six months, the President said: Long before Inauguration Day I became convinced that individual effort and local effort and even disjointed Federal effort had failed and of necessity would fail, and, therefore, that a rounded leadership by the Federal Government had become a necessity both of theory and of fact.