Mr Khan said:
See, i disagree. I feel that in the long-term we should instill a sense of ethics and responsibility in business, but instead we glorify wealth and greed and plunder as things good in themselves. In the short term, we need to punish those who break these bounds, and in the long-term make a society where we won't need to punish these people because we assume that they're acting in the best interests of everyone, not just their pocketbook. Free retraining is something that's being talked about, but of course that's going to add to government outlays, not subtract from them, at least in the short term, and that's all the shrieking budget hawks seem to care about. |
I respect that view. You have faith in humanity.
In designing policy I assume that everyone from the unemployed up to President will act in their own self-interest and hide and lie as much as they can get away with. I believe the only solution is harsh fairness, transparency, and rigid separation of roles between government and corporations.
Yeah, just cutting things at random is short-sighted. That kind of person should be focusing on government waste, of which there is tens of billions, rather than programmes which actually do what they say they'll do (Social Security keeping people in a house and food, NPR, Planned Parenthood etc). I mean, the military has hardly defended the US at all from terrorism and its actions cause antagonism and mistrust around the world, but those fiscal conservatives never bring up defence contracts as an obvious target.
