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Open mindedness = the inability to connect dots or learn from experience
"In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business. … I wish that during the years I was in public office I had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better senator and a more understanding presidential contender. … To create job opportunities, we need entrepreneurs who will risk their capital against an expected payoff. Too often, however, public policy does not consider whether we are choking off those opportunities."
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Open mindedness = the inability to connect dots or learn from experience
"In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business. … I wish that during the years I was in public office I had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better senator and a more understanding presidential contender. … To create job opportunities, we need entrepreneurs who will risk their capital against an expected payoff. Too often, however, public policy does not consider whether we are choking off those opportunities."
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Location: Pine Grove,AL
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Originally Posted by momonkey
Open mindedness = the inability to connect dots or learn from experience
"In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business. … I wish that during the years I was in public office I had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better senator and a more understanding presidential contender. … To create job opportunities, we need entrepreneurs who will risk their capital against an expected payoff. Too often, however, public policy does not consider whether we are choking off those opportunities."
What you quoted has nothing to do with the video,nor does it point out some possible contradiction, so what is the point you are trying to make ?
it seems you just googled the quote and hoped no one would ask questions because you put no context to it or how it is relevant to the conversation.
Yes it does. from the article before and after the quoted post.
George McGovern, the former senator and presidential candidate, opened a bed and breakfast after retiring from a lifetime of “public service.” He was bankrupt in less than a year. Later he famously said:
In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business. … I wish that during the years I was in public office I had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better senator and a more understanding presidential contender. … To create job opportunities, we need entrepreneurs who will risk their capital against an expected payoff. Too often, however, public policy does not consider whether we are choking off those opportunities.
Unfortunately this epiphany occurred after McGovern had spent years piling rules and regulations on his fellow citizens.
He spent too much time and money dealing with regulations.
McGovern was the biggest loser in US history, until Mondale came along. His anti-war message might have gone down better with the public if it were not for the fact that McGovern voted for the war in Vietnam. Like Kerry's, "I voted for the war before I voted against the war" gibberish.
Instead of snapping off one liners like a middle school class clown, you might want to take to heart what a reformed liberal had to say once he realized he had been wrong all his life.
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