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This is an important comment. Governments, politicians, love to take credit for what other people accomplish, when, in reality, at best, they might provide mon
by robomartin 3y ago
This is an important comment. Governments, politicians, love to take credit for what other people accomplish, when, in reality, at best, they might provide money.
Imagine a scenario where you start a company that solves a really difficult problem --taking years of hard work-- and then a VC who provided funding takes credit for the effort. Even worse, the news organizations give the VC credit for the results. That's what politicians do.
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoIn general, but Kennedy set the goal for a manned Moon mission, which was a very expensive and risky undertaking. LBJ and Nixon kept what Kennedy started going, but had Nixon won in 1960, it's doubtful that he would have focused on the same goals for space.
- robomartin 3y agoSure, yet, they didn't "do it". They provided the means. They can take credit for that, justly so. They cannot take credit for the work of the massive numbers of people who did the actual work that got it done. I feel that's a very important distinction. It's like taking credit for cooking a meal at a restaurant just because you paid for it. The other side of it is what politicians do when things go wrong: They blame the people doing the work. Well, if they take credit for the success they should be equally liable for all failure. That, of course, will never happen. Same thing with the economy. When things get better, they did it. When things are bad, the prior administration was at fault. They all do this, regardless of which political party they might align with. You know, just like three year old kids.