>would crow endlessly Sure, so why doesn't this happen more often? The simplest explanation is that elected politician's influence is small compared to the co

>would crow endlessly Sure, so why doesn't this happen more often? The simplest explanation is that elected politician's influence is small compared to the collective bureaucracy's power to do what it was going to do anyway. And yes, everyone who is handed a pile of third-party cash to spend on other people does not usually have very good incentives to make the most efficient choices, and doubly so when their personal agency is further restricted by a mass of regulation.