“There is nothing a government hates more than to be well-informed; for it makes the process of arriving at decisions much more complicated and difficult.”
— John Maynard Keynes, The Times (March 11, 1937); Collected Writings, vol. 21, p. 409
(via Bruce Bartlett (via Brad DeLong))
Ahhh … the sweet, soothing succour of cynicism. 🙂