"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Public Choice Theory is Overlooked
Submitted by Westernerd on Thu, 2013-04-25 03:00
The gist of it is that public servants, so-called − politicians, bureaucrats and their colleagues − tend to promote goals of their own even as they claim to be serving the public interest. And this is not very difficult to grasp.
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