“People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the government program do not know that that is the source of their problem. The good effects are visible. The bad effects are invisible. The good effects generate votes. The bad effects generate discontent, which is as likely to be directed at private business as at the government.” PeopleKnowsProblemGovernmentJobsLosesFailingEffectsSourceProgramVoteInvisibleVisibleDiscontentGovernment ProgramsBenefactors Author:Milton Friedman
“It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.” PeopleGivingCareFailingGiving UpProgramNot Giving Up Author:Pete Carroll
“I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveHardGovernmentI BelieveSocialFailingProgramInvestingI Believe InAssetsInfrastructureSocial Programs Author:Mick Cornett
“The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.” WorldMindMeanMadeReasonFormValuesMemoriesActingBrainPrinciplesFailingDiversityComputerProgramHistoricalDrivenScalesInternalsCategoriesCriteriaConstraintsAnalogies Author:Gerald Edelman
“The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany is grateful to America for the Marshall Plan, Italy would be grateful to Germany for helping it lower its refinancing costs.” HelpingWould BeAmericaRememberPlansFailingCostProgramGratefulDebtGermanyBe GratefulConvincingComprehensiveReductionMarshall Plan Author:George Soros
“Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.” GivingGovernmentJobsFailingEconomicCreatingProgramUltimateEntrepreneurIlliteracyGovernment Programs Author:James Cook
“What if [Saddam] fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction? ... Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal.” IfsWayGivingWellsUseOpportunityLostCommunityFailingWeaponsMassProgramDestructionThirdsInternationalIraqGuaranteesWhat IfRoutesSaddamWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionArsenalAmbiguousInternational Community Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we need to do what we should have done years ago - reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We also need to repeal Dodd-Frank, the Democrats' failed solution. Under Dodd-Frank, 10 banks too big to fail have become five banks too big to fail. Thousands of community banks have gone out of business.” NeedsShouldYearsTwoDoneBigsGovernmentOrderCommunityGoneFiveFailingSolutionsYears AgoProgramShould HaveCrisisDemocratReformFrankMacsMaeCorrupt GovernmentDodd Frank Author:Carly Fiorina