DC Confidential Inside the Five Tricks of Washington [#431854]

David Schoenbrod, "DC Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington"
English | ISBN: 1594039119 | 2017 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
You think you know why our government in Washington is broken, but you really don't. You think it's broken because politicians curry favor with special interests and activists of the Left or Right. There's something to that and it helps explain why these politicians can't find common ground, but it misses the root cause. A half century ago, elected officials in Congress and the White House figured out a new system for enacting laws and spending programs-one that lets them take credit for promising good news while avoiding blame for government producing bad results. With five key tricks, politicians of both parties now avoid accounting to us for what government actually does to us.