Consider the following: > Imagine a government agency with only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold and (2) providing life-saving medications to

Consider the following: > Imagine a government agency with only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold and (2) providing life-saving medications to children. If this agency’s budget were cut, what would it do? It would cut back on the medications for children. Why? Because that would most likely get the budget cuts restored. If they cut back on building statues of Benedict Arnold, people might ask why they were building statues of Benedict Arnold in the first place.” [0] By fixing the problem by allowing more housing, the politician would be able to extract less resources and power from the population. Never let a crisis go to waste. Or perhaps I'm being overly cynical in characterizing the political process. [0] http://www.heraldandtribune.com/oped/benedict-arnold-statues-not-needed/ http://www.heraldandtribune.com/oped/benedict-arnold-statues...