"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster

Sunday, July 5, 2009

The Best Laid Plans

I just finished Randal O'Toole's book of that title, subtitled "How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook and Your Future."

He really delivers, showing how plans at every level - local, state and federal - have never worked and why they can never work. I wish every elected official and planning agency employee would read the thing. But if they did all those planners would lose, or leave, their jobs.

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