In her column today, "Apathy adds insult to injury," she calls out the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) for its, well, let's just call it ineffectiveness. (A blogger less polite than me might have used the word incompetence.)
Greene describes how the state agency has "stonewalled" a legitimate complaint, "failed miserably to offer any recourse" and mocks DORA's claim that "consumer protection is [its] mission."
Once again she thoroughly and effectively describes the uselessness of a government health agency. Somehow, however, she still favors government takeover of our health care system (see "Health care cruel even to those who do everything right.")
I can not see this as anything but a complete intellectual disconnect of a very smart person between (1) the recognition of the ineffectiveness of government programs and (2) the desire for more government programs.
Statists of every strip - "progressive" to "conservative" - regularly display this disconnect.
Greene demonstrates a "progressive" example. Some "conservatives," however, regularly lambaste the government for its ineffectiveness when it comes to social programs, then jump into the government's lap when it comes to issues like the Patriot Act, expanding police power to search citizens, warrantless wiretapping and the regulation of private consensual acts of adults.
Classical liberals (modern libertarians) understand that the state should have less power over the individual and not more - in every single solitary instance.
Classical liberals understand that individuals are imperfect - but that the state forces imperfection upon them.
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