Friday, September 23, 2016

What are the worst policy disasters of the past 20 years...

This is an open ended question I want people to think hard about before answering.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...



in no particular order -

the iran nuke deal

ACA

overturn of welfare reform.

Myballs said...

Iraq...going in and pulling out both.

Too soon for the iran deal.

Too soon for open borders but it is bad policy.

wphamilton said...

"Not Tolerating" a nuclear armed North Korea, which evidently means allowing them to develop nuclear arms over our vehement protests.

"If you break it, you fix it" in both Iraq and Afghanistan. You can't really fix it, so it's a thousand times better to break it and then just leave.

"Perception is reality" in the attempted rapprochement with Russia.

You know, all of these mistakes would have been avoided if our leaders just had the honesty and courage to face the facts, and the integrity to stand firm for rightful action. Failures from character defects, simple as that.

Loretta said...

Lack of coherent foreign policy, from early withdrawal from Iraq, to the faux red line in the sand, to ignoring/underestimating ISIS, to the failed intervention in Libya, to "unicorns are real" ROE in Afghanistan.

Iran nuclear "deal"

Ransom for hostages, or the appearance of paying a ransom.

Economic policies that have culminated leaving us with a current 1% GDP.

KD said...

After this President was Elected, his Economic Policies have cause a multi-generation meltdown of the Blacks in this country that thought he would work in their best interest, turns out his policies have actively destroy many normal wealth building tools.

They own far fewer homes today then when he first took office.

Commonsense said...

President Bill Clinton's failure to get Osama Bin Laden when Sundan offer to him for extradition.

That decision changed history.

wphamilton said...

In the domestic realm.

No criminal fraud convictions arising from the economic meltdown. the failure to investigate and prosecute prior to the meltdown. TARP has been a huge failure, because we are no better off now than we were projected to be without the bank bailout.

And one policy failure whose consequence is still on the horizon, we are effectively ignoring our vulnerability in infrastructure and financial system to cyber-attack. Our critical electronic systems must be hardened against either intrusion and control and against physical attack, and we will eventually pay the price for neglecting this.

wphamilton said...

The sequestration also has to rank among the worst policy decisions of the last two decades. The damage still lingers from that.