When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.
While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.
Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
Within New York City and state, families in need face a confusing hodgepodge of supplemental rental assistance programs, many of which are ineffective individually and all of which are clearly ineffective in the aggregate.
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
Generally speaking, government programs have the reverse result from the goal.
Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.
We have programs that are outdated and no longer effective - we need to get rid of those programs.
