tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21829866.post6101900129110709446..comments2023-08-20T07:06:14.115-04:00Comments on Thurber's Thoughts: What has $100 billion bought us?Maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12677808307727487766noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21829866.post-88937830254236580722010-01-15T21:18:41.117-05:002010-01-15T21:18:41.117-05:00It is not important to liberals that a good idea w...It is not important to liberals that a good idea works. They just have to have the right intentions. <br /><br />...if only the right people would try this, it would succeed, if we would just throw more money at it, etc, there would be success. <br /><br />Too much, "been there, done that" is ignored. Many people cannot bring themselves to believe that their good, even great, ideas might not work in practice.<br /><br />A good friend of mine, while testing a new part on his drag race car said: "If you have a theory, test it and it fails the test, believe the test and get a new theory."Romanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07016139270835685661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21829866.post-9497049728199931992010-01-15T13:36:13.050-05:002010-01-15T13:36:13.050-05:00Maggie,
It should be of no surprise to anyone tha...Maggie,<br /><br />It should be of no surprise to anyone that a government program has no measurable benefit to those it serves. The surprise would be if as a result of the release of this data, the program and its funding were canceled.<br /><br />While we're at it though and in these days of constant complaint against the funding of our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, how's that "War on Poverty" going?Timothy W Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17118861693269565715noreply@blogger.com