[woodman]

> Lots of seemingly stupid decisions are completely reasonable from the person who made them.

Lol, good intentions are worth absolutely nothing. Your misallocation of resources story isn't really helpful either, if you think the SEC made a great move in structuring financial instrument ratings - explain it.

[Retric]

That's not what I meant. It's not 'good intentions' vs 'reality' it's 'selfish intentions' +'bad measurement' = 'WTF rules'.

[woodman]

Ah, well that is a consequence of poor planning by the well-intentioned. Here, I'll show you:

People are bad, therefor we need a government made of people are bad, therefor we need a government made of people are bad...