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Milton Friedman

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

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Political efforts often focus on fixing problems caused by poor decisions or mistakes made by those in power. This means that a lot of time and resources are spent undoing the damage rather than creating new policies or improvements.

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