Given the carnage in Newtown as the latest example, journalists should demand whether we can do better.
Whether we can do so may turn on whether the binding constraint comes from regulation or from the market.
The question is whether we can do it in a responsible way that allows us to keep investing in the things that have always made America strong.
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Yes, services provided by the state can and do truly help the poor, but the question should always be whether or not we can do better.
We have to do the things that we can do while Congress figures out whether it's going to take action on jobs and the economy.
At issue is whether we can trust each other to "do our best to do our duty".
We know it's time for us to take a look and figure out whether there's something that we can do.
Money does not, to reiterate, have anything whatsoever to do with whether or not we can support retirees, how many they can be, or how much they can have.
We can debate whether women get a fair shake at opportunities and I would argue that we do.
We can do internet research for our aging parents whether they can use the internet or not.
"We do make individual informed or uniformed decisions about whether I can have that test or whether I can take that medicine, " she says.
In a global economy where the best jobs follow talent -- whether in Calcutta or Cleveland -- we need to do everything we can to encourage that same kind of passion, make it easier for more young people to blaze a new trail.
Some of these questions may seem like inside baseline, but they are issues that have to do with whether the study can be trusted and how we should react to the results.
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While there are unresolved questions over privacy, who owns the data behind digital maps and whether people can opt in - or out - of appearing on them, they will "redefine what we do" says Prof Brotton.
Mr. NEAL: Typically, when I talk to local coordinators, we hear this general theme that the only type of equipment or training we can do is related to terrorism, that the specific hazards for the community--whether it's floods, whether it's hurricanes--we can't get the money to train for that.
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