[SoConPubbie]

Nations that take care of their people first, need not lead the world. My platitude sounds better than your platitude.

By Nations I assume you mean governments, correct?

If so, you could not be more wrong.

That would appear at first blush to be socialism my friend, and we just spent a century proving how wrong that type of sentiment really is!

[LachlanMinnesota]

You are missing my pint on purpose, I believe. My point is that without a definite defined goal in mind, this is a massive waste of effort for a few to have an emotional high to put a few lines in our textbooks.

It has nothing to do with political beliefs. It has everything to do with a cost benefit approach to spending taxpayers’ money, using budgets taht are not fully visible to public scrutiny.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

At first glance, some of that statement could seem socialist. However, government being used to stimulate the economy (as through tax cuts and building more roads) or lobbying American business’s case in trade disagreements with other countries are not socialist. And governments which are more intent on being number one in terms of power rather than taking a more humble and pragmatic approach in the interest of those who voted them into power are bad.