Ambition? Imagination?

We've lost our ambition? We've lost our imagination? Really?

Wait a second...burying 1,661 miles of 36-diameter pipe in the ground in a $13 billion effort so that no one sees it or is disturbed by it is not ambitious or imaginative?

Expanding production of a plane with revolutionary innovations in advanced material design and fuel efficiency is not ambitious or imaginative?

Trying to cure breast cancer is not ambitious or imaginative?

Trying to tap the largest reserves of energy known to man is not ambitious or imaginative?

Maybe it is because we can't even let people try to make better ice cream that we can't do big things, because we don't even let people do small things and thus learn how to, ya' know, do things at all...

Or is it "the government" he's taking about? Wait, the government isn't doing big things? Coulda fooled me. Indeed.