I like this guy.

John Goodman (no, not that one) points out the differences between the engineering and economic approaches to social systems. (The economic approach obviously works, yet our Lords and Masters are trying to use the made-of-fail engineering approach, which is why American society is currently swimming upstream against the suck.)

Both these experiments reveal two important things about pilot programs: (1) it is possible to spend an enormous amount of money to learn something ordinary people with an ounce of common sense (people without PhDs) probably could have told us anyway and (2) no matter what we discover, politicians are likely to do what is politically expedient for them to do in any event.

I love the smell of common sense in the morning!