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Hopefully his policies will live up to the talk, but if nothing else I believe that his message alone will go a long way towards helping improve things. Never
by hugh 18y ago
Hopefully his policies will live up to the talk, but if nothing else I believe that his message alone will go a long way towards helping improve things.
Never forget: the unintended consequences of any government policy almost always wind up being far more significant than the intended consequences.
This is what I fear most.
- redrobot5050 18y agoYou've got citations to back up your fears, don' you? I've love to see the horrible, horrible unintended consequence of seatbelt laws.
- wildwood 18y agoOr the GI bill. If only we had known! :)
- hugh 18y agoY'know, I did say "almost always". Seatbelt laws? Yeah, I can't think of much there, though I'm sure there's somebody out there who'll argue that seatbelt laws promote worse driving, and there have probably been some particular crashes in which seatbelts have led to rather than prevented injuries. The GI Bill? Actually in my limited understanding that probably wound up having consequences well beyond what was originally intended, and it's likely that most of those consequences were on balance good rather than bad. But it doesn't make them any less unintended. It wrought major changes in higher education and in the demographics of cities vs suburbs, which were probably not on the minds of those who originally proposed the bill.