David Brooks : The Big Test

"I fear that in trying to do everything at once, they will do nothing well. I fear that we have a group of people who haven’t even learned to use their new phone system trying to redesign half the U.S. economy....I worry that we’re operating far beyond our economic knowledge. Every time the administration releases an initiative, I read 20 different economists with 20 different opinions. I worry that we lack the political structures to regain fiscal control. Deficits are exploding, and the president clearly wants to restrain them. But there’s no evidence that Democrats and Republicans in Congress have the courage or the mutual trust required to share the blame when taxes have to rise and benefits have to be cut.....I have to go to the keyboard each morning hoping Barack Obama is going to prove me wrong."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/opinion/24brooks.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

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