Boy, did I ever butcher that one!

Anyway…if the problem is unnaccountable government with bad money habits, the citizen performing empirical, side-by-side comparisons over time is the only way for him to appraise the value he gets for his government dollar.

Is California’s school system better than, say, Idaho’s? Do North Dakota county community colleges produce better employees than, say, Washington’s do? Funny. You’d think the Repub’s would enjoy hearing the answers to these sorts of questions.

Relative performance. Comparisons. Competition. Empiricism. Standards. These concepts are like garlic to DC’s blood suckers. We ought be shoving them in their faces right now. A return of the states-rights agenda in Congress’d provide the perfect venue to do so.