Thursday, 2 October 2008

The US government; designed by geniuses; run by idiots

“I’ve always believed that America’s government was a unique political system — one designed by geniuses so that it could be run by idiots. I was wrong. No system can be smart enough to survive this level of incompetence and recklessness by the people charged to run it."

Thomas Friedman, NY Times

3 comments:

Ben Bittrolff said...

Wait, it gets worse (post on my blog).

A New York Times article from 1999 that predicts Fannie Mae will have to get bailed out eventually... and predicts something worse than the S&L crisis.

In 1999! They knew then and did it anyways...

Anonymous said...

It's a shame Friedman is one of the idiots. He's just annoyed they aren't following the Friedman Plan.

Nick

Anonymous said...

The US had a set of rules to follow - the constitution. If they aren't being followed, no wonder it's not working.