Reply #11: It's all about control. You lose power, you become accountable. [View All]

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The government does not have a problem with sunk costs as such, look at all the crap we are leaving in Iraq, the endless funds that are wasted on stupid efforts like the drug war or harassing disobedient foreign countries, the economic debacle that is our "health care" system. It is the accountablility for what they have done that will make them cling to any fig leaf that comes along.

But this is too big, too ridiculous, and there will not be time for it to fade away as they wish.