Thursday, April 30, 2009

"Pass the bill now...worry about its effects and implementation later"

Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote a book entitled Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. In it she wrote, "The need for haste often resulted in a failure to define the precise nature and requirements of social objectives. Legislative solutions were often devised and rushed into law before the problems were understood...Pass the bill now, worry about its effects and implementation later - this was the White House strategy."

Sound familiar?

2 comments:

mushroom said...

It does sound familiar. The Great Society debacles and excesses contributed to the floating of the dollar by Nixon, and the subsequent economic "malaise" of the '70's. What's going on now is exponentially worse.

Terri Wagner said...

Those who pay no attention to history are doomed to repeat which annoys those of us who do know history.