[petrilli]

I believe a summary is best stated as "See, we're doing something!" Doing something, and doing the right thing, are very different things, but one is simple, and the other requires thought and risk management.

You can imagine which is rewarded and which is punished. Not just by politicians and bureaucrats, but by the public as well. The general public is also responsible for this absurdity by not being willing to accept some risk as being unavoidable.

[anon_for_this_1]

You just described the reason my father-in-law (and now I) believe that the best outcome is no movement. Thus we both vote (in the US) to try and create a stalemate in house vs Senate - both parties are so screwed up they damage everything they touch.

[raganwald]

"The Politician's Fallacy: We must do something. This is something. Therfore, we must do it. But doing the wrong thing is worse than doing nothing at all." --Sir Humphrey Appleby, "Yes, Prime Minister."