, Alan Enthoven and Charles Hitch. RAND never developed anything; it’s primary mission was nuclear “ wargaming “ or planning for nuclear war. During the Berlin his role in planning the Vietnam War. Instead he simply moved on and applied his failed wargaming theories to other areas of human life. In 1984 he published a book
Bolick correctly describes the dismal condition of the public school system, but fails to offer the correct solution: the complete separation of school from state. The Gordian Knot stays uncut. He insists that “it is nothing less than criminal to fail to consider private options in a rescue mission“ for children in failing public schools. But is it any less criminal to
could try to save anyone. (Of course, we found out later that not only did police fail to save people, but at least one person bled to death because police refused to New Orleans that was not under water. For those who maintain that the government “failed“ its “mission,” I must say that they are wrong. True, the government with its ham-fisted policies of blocking relief missions, imposing price controls, and acting in a dictatorial, but incompetent
so long as the Fed can print money. The Greenspan Fed’s policy of “too big to fail”, and its reckless expansion of credit whenever a large player started to wobble public or congressional debate, and without most Americans even being aware. Their mission was aided and abetted by enormous expenditures on lobbying. Fannie
Mac’s larger sibling). These institutions were products of the New Deal. The mission of the Federal Home Loan Banks, which were created in 1932, was to provide many think that the U.S. government would prevent Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae from failing financially if changes in the market worked against their portfolio values. to the line of credit and potentially could be called on to pay much more if they failed. In fact, rightly or wrongly, investors generally believe that this is the
left with an enormous debt and an empty treasury. Similar overly ambitious schemes failed in other states, some of which, like Illinois in 1848, amended their America today would probably not have been able to pursue its twentieth-century mission to make the world safe for democracy. “Abraham Lincoln’s hope that the
things under the conviction that to limit the right to buy and sell is part of the mission of spreading the social gospel. Actually, what they are doing is raising the to the servants as a test of their prowess as investors. Some passed and others failed. We as individuals and as a nation can choose to bury our talents or seek out
money. People are hired and fired. There is risk: inventions variously succeed and fail. Spacely Sprockets and Cogswell Cogs make capital goods to sell to others who are mostly his fellow employees. They care more about each other than the mission or whatever it is they are supposed to be doing, for which they have nothing
by proxy, given his alleged connections to al-Qaeda. Only when the hyped weapons failed to surface, and they have yet to do so, did the Bush administration quickly before the war, who correctly assessed the vehicles as fit for reconnaissance missions, not WMD delivery. The glaring deficiency of the Robb-Silberman commission’s
“nicotine delivery device” was his memorable reference to cigarettes). When that failed, he declared tobacco a “pediatric disease” and entreated a receptive Clinton Graham said, I would assume the reason this happened is because the FDA sees its mission primarily as one of serving the [pharmaceutical] industry...If the FDA really
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