That’s the whine coming from the Obama regime, particularly when it comes to its greatest achievement: Obamacare. Mike Tanner has a good column today that explores some of the reasons why Americans don’t trust that Obamacare is going to accomplish all the wonderful things it was supposed to.
Tanner observes that “in the last few years, we’ve seen the government invade a country that turned out not to have weapons of mass destruction, ran up $15 trillion in debt, all but bankrupted Medicare and Social Security and nudged us toward a housing bubble that nearly brought down the economy. Should we really trust a government that thought shipping guns to Mexican drug lords and giving $535 million to a money-losing solar panel company were good ideas?”
Instead of trusting that public officials will do good things, sort of like Santa Claus, experience tells us that we should assume that they will generally waste resources and create new problems.
