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Bloated Government Is Too Big to Succeed
The Beltway is still a long way from being the Capitol of The Hunger Games, but that doesn’t make the economic drift from the mainstream of the nation and Washington’s aggregation of resources and power any less disturbing. If it resulted in wise and beneficent policy, it might at least be understandable or tolerable. However, as the unfolding disaster of the Affordable Care Act demonstrates, the trend instead feeds a poisonous combination of elitism and incompetence while protecting politicians from the consequences of failure. - See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/11/20/Why-Bloated-US-Government-Too-Big-Succeed#sthash.96nK9rli.dpuf
The Beltway is still a long way from being the Capitol of The Hunger Games, but that doesn’t make the economic drift from the mainstream of the nation and Washington’s aggregation of resources and power any less disturbing. If it resulted in wise and beneficent policy, it might at least be understandable or tolerable. However, as the unfolding disaster of the Affordable Care Act demonstrates, the trend instead feeds a poisonous combination of elitism and incompetence while protecting politicians from the consequences of failure. - See more at: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/11/20/Why-Bloated-US-Government-Too-Big-Succeed#sthash.96nK9rli.dpuf
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