Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Departing from the standard of truth

Betsy Newmark writes:
It is time to judge policies by their results and not their benign intentions.
Betsy links to an article by William Voegeli, who writes:
For progressives, the success of government programs takes a backseat to their own moral grandstanding.

Liberals’ ideals make them more culpable, not less, for the fact that government programs set up to do good don’t reliably accomplish good. Doing good is often harder than do-gooders realize, but doing good is also more about the doing and the doer than it is about the good. Too often, as a result, liberals are content to treat gestures as the functional equivalent of deeds, and intentions as adequate substitutes for achievements.
Read more here.

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