Instead of promoting a national rail system for the masses, which is far far far more environmentally friendly and would have killed far far far less of the citizens....
Sent a person to the moon... Yet 40 years later we still struggle with doing just that and we've no figured out how to make micro environments work, either socially of from a biological perspective...
"created social security program" I rely on the VA for "health care". What a joke. Not only is it very expensive but its a failure. I tweaked my knee about 4 months ago and the only way I've been "seen" by them in via "teleheath" over a month ago. Anyone who's anyone knows you have to actually have hands on to diagnose a knee injury. This is only my most recent failure of "socialized ran government" "healthcare"... back in 2008 I was covered under "government" "workers comp" and broke/fractured 19+ bones. 8 months into it they kicked me off, no payout of any kind, and said I was 100%. The Government appointed Lawyer (you can't hire one in their system and have to use their lawyer) didn't even respond and the Judge sided with the Government (ironic he's a part of the same Government, isn't it?).
Someone else mentioned the biofuel thing, I can second that. What a nightmare that was/is.
As far as CFC are concerned. Getting it right once means? One of the downside to this though was people who used over the counter asthma inhalers were forced to get prescription ones after this at ten times the cost. For the same product...and can't just pick one up when needed.
"safe drinking water standards" Guess this is why we don't read about large areas having substanard drinking water? Also why we don't read about how Congress is trying to spend massive amounts of $ to fix local problems with drinking water? I could use this example as to exactly why we do it wrong. Maybe cities should not be so large as to have the need for massive water/sewage systems and maybe one way to have this is for the citizen to ALWAYS bear the cost of all of these systems (including the highways one, or subsidizing fuel, or, medical care, or, retirement). I'd argue the debt fueled the outrageous waste we have in our country. When a person can have a $10,000 fridge filled with nothing but icecream and their a "public" servant... I work daily at the moment to provide myself a water system that will provide myself and my farm water year round using no electricity (outside of what it takes to make/install it). Imagine if society thought like that versus "let the government handle it" at all cost...
"established a national & reliable energy grid" I guess I might as well talk about this one also (I've done so on this forum already). Locally we loose power a LOT due to poorly maintained power lines. I've watched them burn on the road many times, people even still driving under them. I can point out areas that clearly need maintained (and have done so) to the Government and yet those areas are not maintained. A "fix" would be to move the hardest part to maintain over one valley where most of it actually already is (this would remove it from above the State route as well) and in the long run would be far cheaper and less hazardous (by far). So, what has the "federal" government (or even local) done to help "fix" this problem? Worse yet I've driven then some areas before, during, and after, that HAVE burnt and looked at how poorly citizens maintain these areas. Dead long grass running right up to wooden fences that run right up to their homes....for miles and miles. Government doesn't help here, nor do the actual citizens. Which brings me back to my start. Its..hopeless. One part of me wonders if deep down inside people think "let it burn, the Government will rebuild it for me for free!".
Keep on believing what you want....No idea why I wrote this, reality won't change it for you.