The Cold Harsh Reality Is That We

Leading From The Front: It's What Built America. But These Days, The Federal Government Isn't At The Front - It's Cowering In The Back Corner Of The Room, Ducking Responsibility And Hoping No One Notices.

Most Gun Dealers Follow The Law And Run Honest Businesses. But The Statistics Show That 1 Percent Of Dealers Sell More Than Half Of All Illegal Guns. Why Isn't The Federal Government Going After Them? Here's One Reason: Unlike Mayors, Members Of Congress Don't Get A Phone Call In The Middle Of The Night When A Cop Is Shot And Killed. They Don't Deliver The Eulogies.

The Mistake That Was Made In The '70s Is We Stopped Policing The Streets, We Stopped Cleaning The Streets, We Stopped Cleaning The Graffiti Off Buildings, We Stopped Supporting Our Cultural Institutions And Building Parks And Schools And All Those Kinds Of Things.

Design Does Matter. And Not Necessarily In A Way That People Realize. A Lot Of What You Do, People Take For Granted - That A Park Has Always Been Here, That A Bicycle Lane Has Always Been There, That The Street Is Safe Or Clean.

Now, You Might Say – “but Why Should We Pay People For Doing What They’re Supposed To Do?” It’s A Fair Question – But Think Of It This Way: Every Other Anti-poverty Program That’s Been Tried Has Failed To Get The National Poverty Rate Below 11 Percent... Why Shouldn’t We Experiment With A Program Built Around The One Strategy That Has Proven Time And Again To Work Wonders – Capitalism?