May 25, 2021
After Biden: It’s Up to Us
By Christopher Chantrill
In a laudatory piece on the Biden economic policy #NeverTrumper Michael Gerson cautions, between the lines, that Biden must not only propose solutions but also make them work.
Oh sure, writes Reagan administration alum Donald Devine; like anyone in Washington cares about that.
Expecting policies to work may seem an obvious requirement, but my half-century of experience in Washington taught me that this [is] a rare concern among policy experts. The goal in these environs is to spend more money on problems, not to worry about results.
Really? But we have been taught to believe that government only works when the gap-toothed Republicans are replaced by suave educated Democratic experts. What gives?
The answer is given by my simple understanding of government, according to the Einsteinian principle to “make things as simple as possible but no simpler.”
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/05/after_biden_its_up_to_us.html
