Will and others like him still cling to the belief that big government can do good things, that it just needs to be better directed.
That idea that we need to redistribute wealth into research is just as destructive the idea that it should be redistributed to a class of people.
It’s not what the redistributed wealth is used for, it’s the forced redistribution that’s important.
Will will never get it.
Poor old George is someone, I'm sure, who thinks that government is a refuge for the nice. Unlike in the private sector (according to commonplace), nice guys with good ideas finish first in government: that's what he almost surely believes.
Granted that I myself am questionable on this count, but there's a fine line between "above it all" and "out of it." Poor George doesn't seem to realize that the fedral government is a refuge for blamers. If you chance upon a bureaucrat who seems to be monumentally stupid, best odds are you bumped into one who washes his/her hands with Blameum soap and considers then clean.