Government Innovation: An Oxymoron!

SEE HERE Here's the quote that caught my eye: "Not five minutes into his remarks, the President took a beautiful legacy of U.S. innovation and diminished it by suggesting that it couldn't have happened without Washington's help. Like his party, he fails to understand that our nation's progress didn't happen because of the government, but in spite of it." Exactly! The root of much of our problem is this delusion that the government contributes essentially to American innovation. It isn't just not true, it is the diametric opposite. The government routinely destroys real innovation by imposing unimaginative bureaucratic solutions on problems which either really were not problems at all, or were problems that needed a lot better solution than the one-size fits all band-aid that government routinely applies.