WHY GOVERNMENT DOESN’T WORK, NO MATTER WHO RUNS IT
LESSON II
The other reason government will always malfunction – besides the logical impossibility of sensible spending – has to do with a politician’s brain. "What brain?" you say. Alas, it’s worse than a joke. Taken one by one, politicians are of dull-normal intelligence. But when you put politicians together in government, you get committees. In Congress they even come right out and call the committees "committees." You’ve been on committees... You knowwhat happens to intelligence and common sense when a person becomes a committee member – Committee Brain. You live in a neighborhood with a playground. The kids in the neighborhood would like to play tetherball, but the playground has no tetherball pole. A committee is formed to raise funds for tetherball – Committee to Raise Funds for Tetherball, "CRFT." CRFT is started by a group of pleasant, enthusiastic, public-spirited neighbors. The minute any of these neighbors becomes a member of CRFT, he or she will begin to express his or her pleasant, enthusiastic public spirit by turning into one of the following:
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