Governor Jindal was on MSNBC. Thanks to HotAir for posting the video since I my remote never seems to stop at that bastion of liberal propaganda any more.
I especially liked hearing Governor Jindal discuss the states as “laboratories of experimentation.” That’s exactly what the founding father’s intended, is the bedrock of federalism, and something that Fred Thompson discussed a lot during the primaries.
The idea behind a limited federal government with the power residing primarily with individual states is that each state is a microcosm of the nation as a whole and each can take its own approach to solving problems. Thus we have the potential of 50 different laboratories researching and combating similar issues, the best solutions from one can then be borrowed by the rest. Certainly in a time plagued by a number of national issues (credit, taxes, housing, health care, education, etc) we would be better served with fifty different groups in touch with the needs of their citizens trying to come up with solid solutions as opposed to one inept base of power continually making mistakes.
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