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So, A. Leonard thinks "big" issues need tackled at the federal or international level. Brilliant. We'd better get an international police force to do some enforcing too.
He wants the government to save us with a big solution. The bigger the government the bigger the solution. The idea of individual people taking responsibility for their own actions and their own future is just so --- wrong!
Historically, we've had lots of big issues that were handled at the state level long before the feds stepped in. Take slavery for example. Sometimes, the people, speaking in a million voices, bring about big solutions that the government won't address. For example, the fall of the Berlin Wall. There was no government mandate, just a huge demonstration and party that couldn't be shut down.
San Francisco is doing the right thing. So what if they pay the price and other people benefit. Someone has to step up first. We tend to call those people role models.
As for A. Leonard - don't expect much. Is he the guy who works at home, whose wife works at home, and whose child needs day care because the parents lack the will and fortitude to raise him? I guess the solution there is government child rearing. Preferably federal.
