Posted on 08/31/2009 9:45:29 AM PDT by AJKauf
The more politics intrudes, the more likely that average people will suffer from mistakes that are never corrected.
Here are some examples.
Public education. Our public education system is highly politicized. It’s very costly and yet produces remarkably poor results, with many students never graduating from high school; of those who do graduate, many have dismal basic skills in reading, writing, and math.
Housing market. Our housing market used to be free of politics, but within the last several decades politicians have intervened repeatedly to push their idea that home ownership is necessarily good and to undermine longstanding lending standards to accomplish that. The resulting housing bubble did enormous economic damage to the nation, thanks to political intrusion.
The Post Office....
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The devil is NOT in the details.
He’s in the White House! :) :(
BINGO.
The devil IS in the White House.
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The more politics intrudes, the more likely that average people will suffer from mistakes that are never corrected... Public education. Our public education system is highly politicized. It's very costly and yet produces remarkably poor results, with many students never graduating from high school; of those who do graduate, many have dismal basic skills in reading, writing, and math. Housing market. Our housing market used to be free of politics, but within the last several decades politicians have intervened repeatedly to push their idea that home ownership is necessarily good and to undermine longstanding lending standards to accomplish that.Obviously, politicians did no such thing -- but some of them swore that's what they were trying to accomplish.
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