Officials Defend the Indefensible

Why are we spending 73 cents on rail for every dollar spent on roads? No rational decisionmaking process would yield such a result.

RALEIGH (By John Hood, Carolina Journal Online) – Those who seek election to political office deserve our thanks for their willingness to serve. Those who win election to political office deserve a chance to demonstrate their work ethic and wisdom.

But no one who wins election and then makes demonstrably foolish decisions deserves our respect. I’m rapidly losing whatever respect I had for politicians who continue to vote to fund low-priority projects in the midst of a fiscal crisis.

The problem exists at the federal, state, and local levels of government. Consider two recent decisions that involve senseless decisions at every level...