Zitat des Tages über Schlechte Regierung / Bad Government:
It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.
The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.