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September 08, 2004

Science and Government Intro

Today I am going to start a four part series called "Science and Government" where I lay out what I see as how best to reform our society to fulfill the role of government in the 21st century.

We all know that we live in a "changing economy", we were originally founded as an agrarian society but that is no longer viable for most workers due to advanced farming techniques (only 4% work in agriculture today vs. 90% in the 18th century). In the 19th century we changed over to a manufacturing base, that is no longer good for workers due to outsourcing. Even today data-processing and programming jobs are no longer secure.

In my series I will try to address how we can reform government to fulfill its true duty to citizens while keeping costs down and encouraging growth through a fully fleshed-out, cutting edge science and technology sector.

My First Article, "The Market State" will deal with how we can shatter the Welfare state and replace it with a state that defends your security and gives you an initial boost.

Second, in "The Signapore Model", I will deal with how the government can follow their example to keep our economy prosperous, sound, and competetive.

Third, in "Who's best for Science", I will offer my views of which presidential candidate is most likely to set up such a system.

Finally, in "Problems and Solutions", I will show the objections to these reforms and try to offer answers to best deal with them.

Enjoy

Posted by scottm at 05:48 PM