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This happens to all governments, big, small, good, bad, authoritarian, democratic; it isn’t dishonest politicians, ineffective bureaucrats, or one party too long in power. Political governments just do not manage non-political matters well.
To see why not, look again at the savings and loan disaster, a good example of government in business. How did it get so serious? Politicians, responding to constituent pressure in the only way they can, used political power, first to extend deposit insurance from a reasonable $10,000 to a ridiculous $100,000, then used legislative influence over bureaucrats regulating the industry to “go easy” on troubled or dishonest managements.
During the last days of the Soviet Union, American TV reporters were horrified by the conditions in the Soviet’s “free and universal” medical system: inadequate or non-available medicines, so few hypodermic needles that they were reused many times, often without sterilization - expect in special clinics reserved for powerful Party officials, their politicians, who had the best. Yet the Democrats want government in charge of American medicine?!
How, then, should we vote in 1992? Accepting that no candidate is perfect, that all have made mistakes, we should look first at the underlying philosophy of each political party and how that fits today’s problems; second, check the personal character of every candidate.
The Republican Party, though it hasn’t done all it should, understands that more government is not the answer to every problem and often makes them worse; that the best path out of the serious trouble we’re in is to stop, then gradually reverse,
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