Later On

I believe that we all, left and right, want to make the US as strong a nation as it can be, and certainly part of a nation’s strength is a citizenry that is well-nourished and healthy and well-educated and community-minded. The US is strong if its multitudinous communities are strong. So, in the national interest, we want all those communities to be strong.

Thus the government has a national interest in supporting a good educational system and seeing that its citizens are well educated. And we do indeed have government schools and universities that work toward this mission, albeit with insufficient research into, and replication of, programs that produce the best educational outcomes. And we are working toward healthcare reforms that will, one hopes, provide adequate medical and dental care for all citizens, not just those with sufficient money—it does the nation no good if groups of citizens cannot get healthcare, since they can serve as pools of infectious diseases. And we have programs such as Food Stamps to ensure that all citizens are nourished.

All of this goes to make the US a stronger nation, something I think everyone would want.