Bob Wells Quotes

Chodorov originated the principle but Stepp named it and formulated it this way. A good example of how the principle was to be applied is given by Chadorov to solve the problems of communists holding government jobs. See 56,783

Much reservation land was by law and policy divided amongst the Indians. The theory of this “Allotment System” was that if Indians owned land individually rather than communally, they had an asset which could be mortgaged, sold, rented and otherwise used as whites do their land assets. However, so many Indians had been cheated and swindled out of their land that Congress passed stringent laws regulating the manner and procedures for sale of Indians’ land. Many whites and some Indians complained that it was getting too cumbersome.

This quotation not only illustrates the typical Southern attitude at the time as the issue of Slavery began to be the subject of Federal governmental debate, but it also illustrates the incredible party flip flops over time. Ritchie was one of the leading Democratic Politicians of his day, and it was the Democrats who were opposed to Government. However, people without a knowledge of early American History might think that this quotation came from right wing Republicans of the early 21st century. By then, it was the Democrats who saw the important role of government. The Democrats were then extreme enemies of the Federal Government and were against freedom for Blacks and their rights, that the Republican Party was created and used government more than most Americans ever thought possible, ended slavery and permitted Negro voting and equality. Almost 200 years later it was the Democrats who were espousing the old Republican Views, and the Republicans holding the old Democratic view of government and adopting a more passive view on racial equality and justice.

There were a number of hyper conservatives at the time who actually believed this. They either tend to ignore for ideological reasons, the incredible role that local, state, and the Federal government has played in many of the great innovations in our nation. It was a Federal Contract that allowed Eli Whitney to develop the technique of manufacturing with interchangeable parts. The Erie Canal, the greatest and most innovative engineering project in the world at the time was built by the New York State government with State money, It was a Abraham Lincoln Federal contract that produced the research to make the telegraph feasible. Under Theodore Roosevelt, a Federal Government grant made it possible to control Yellow Fever. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had the Army and the Treasure Department fund and operate the Manhattan project which not only developed the atomic bomb but also innovated the tools and methods for nuclear energy production. Most of the early computer programs in America were written by Government employees or by people who were working under government contracts. It was the Army that not only financed but also provided key staff in DARPA which produced the Internet. The Decoding of the Human Genome was the joint innovation of a private group and a Research Laboratory of the National Institutes of Health, and the majority of medical innovations (including pharmaceuticals) in the last 50 years were produced by Government Scientists or Financed by Government Agencies. There are literally thousands of others, a;; of which must be ignored to claim that Government curtails innovation. There has also been a great deal of important innovation that has occurred by independent individuals and private companies without the help of government. The great innovative success of America has been because both the private and public sectors, sometimes working independently and sometimes together has produced a steady production of important innovations that are the envey of the world.