{"id":11441,"date":"2009-02-24T23:35:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T23:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_brooks_hope_against_faith\/"},"modified":"2009-02-24T23:35:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T23:35:43","slug":"david_brooks_hope_against_faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11441","title":{"rendered":"David Brooks: Hope against faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama has concentrated enormous power on a few aides in the West Wing of the White House. These aides are unrolling a rapid string of plans: to create 3 million jobs, to redesign the health care system, to save the auto industry, to revive the housing industry, to reinvent the energy sector, to revitalize the banks, to reform the schools – and to do it all while cutting the deficits in half.<\/p>\n

If ever this kind of domestic revolution were possible, this is the time and these are the people to do it. Yet they set off my Burkean alarm bells.<\/p>\n

I fear that in trying to do everything at once, they will do nothing well. I fear that we have a group of people who haven’t even learned to use their new phone system trying to redesign half the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n

I fear they are going to try to undertake the biggest administrative challenge in American history while refusing to hire the people who can help the most: agency veterans who are registered lobbyists.<\/p>\n

I worry that we’re operating far beyond our economic knowledge.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Obama has concentrated enormous power on a few aides in the West Wing of the White House. These aides are unrolling a rapid string of plans: to create 3 million jobs, to redesign the health care system, to save…<\/span><\/p>\n

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