An ongoing 9/11, every two days.
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1452429260665331712
I’d have thought at any point in my life before recent times that such deaths would fill the headlines. Instead, they make a mere backdrop for, tonight alone, four stories that depict a country set morally adrift: 
We are cursed, it appears, to live in interesting times.
A thought that keeps crossing my mind is the imperative of driving home to key Dem decision makers that we—despite our educations, our experience, our standardized-test verified wisdom—are not so smart.
We have the brainpower to work up the most byzantine policy designs …
We have the brainpower to work up the most byzantine policy designs …
https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1446152628430311424
… but whatever perfection gets put to paper by committee chairmen — the proposal to run paid leave through private insurance companies, for instance — has to get executed. And as we complicate policies, the ways in which they can get screwed up proliferate.
https://twitter.com/erinmulvaney/status/1441115494291935239
We do not have a civil service smart enough to means-test every increment of benefit that flows through the government to a fare-thee-well. We need lawmakers smart enough to accept that very basic fact.
Keep things simple. Get benefits to folks. Build from there.
Keep things simple. Get benefits to folks. Build from there.
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