The Absurdity of “Reform” in DC<\/a><\/h2>\nby James Bovard<\/p>\n
In the 1930s, peasants who were starving because of the Soviet regime\u2019s brutal farm collectivization policy lamented, \u201cIf only Stalin knew!\u201d Nowadays, American social scientists look at floundering federal programs and lament: \u201cIf only Congress knew!\u201d<\/strong> And the solution is the \u201cevidence-based\u201d reform movement which will magically beget a new era of good governance.<\/p>\nShow Me the Evidence: Obama\u2019s Fight for Rigor and Results in Social Policy is the title of a new book written by Ron Haskins, a former congressional staffer who was also briefly a White House aide under George W. Bush. The book\u2019s publisher, the Brookings Institute, is renown as one of Washington\u2019s most prominent defenders of Big Government. In a New York Times op-ed spinoff, Haskins proclaimed that \u201csince its earliest days the Obama administration has been pursuing the most important initiative in the history of federal attempts to use evidence to improve social programs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haskins\u2019s book is building on a Hosanna moment for Washington policy wonks. On May 18, 2012, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo notifying federal agencies that \u201cprograms that can prove their effectiveness with data will be more likely to get the funds they seek.\u201d A New York Times headline whooped up that memo: \u201cThe Dawn of the Evidence- Based Budget.\u201d The Times noted: \u201cWhen we consider the vast sums that governments spend, it seems crazy that policy makers don\u2019t routinely make good use of evidence.\u201d \u201cSeems crazy\u201d is an accurate description of policymaking but expectations for an outbreak of sanity are premature<\/strong>.<\/p>\nHaskins and organizations such as the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy encourage Americans to believe that, because a few federal programs are spending pocket change for solid program evaluations, the government as a whole could soon be far more competent. But history shows that mere evidence rarely deters politicians from seizing power over vast swaths of American life<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor instance, the folly of farm subsidies has been obvious for more than eighty years. In 1930, The New York Times, surveying the wreckage of agricultural markets after the federal government tried to drive up wheat prices, concluded, \u201cIt is perhaps fortunate for the country that its fingers were so badly burned at the very first trial of the scheme.\u201d But that did not deter President Franklin Roosevelt and Congress from making the Secretary of Agriculture a farm dictator.<\/p>\n
Despite an unbroken string of failures, the federal government has continued disrupting agriculture ever since. Politicians create convoluted programs that pay farmers more than their crops are worth, and then launch new interventions spurred by the disruptions caused by suppressing price signals. Most of the ag policy mistakes of the past are still being repeated: only the names of the secretaries of agriculture and of the farm-state congressmen have changed.<\/p>\n
Foreign aid is the largest laboratory for Obama\u2019s evidence-based reforms. Obama promised in a 2010 United Nations speech to \u201cchange the way we do business\u201d with foreign aid, pledging to judge aid programs and budgets \u201cbased not on dollars spent, but on outcomes achieved.\u201d The following year, the Agency for International Development ballyhooed a new evaluation policy for a \u201ctransformation based on absolute demand for results.\u201d<\/p>\n
But that \u201cabsolute demand\u201d could not compete with the pressure generated by Obama\u2019s 2008 campaign pledge to double foreign aid. His administration has been far more concerned with boosting spending and covering up boondoggles. The Washington Post nailed AID last year for massively suppressing audit reports revealing waste, fraud and abuse. More than 400 negative findings were deleted from a sample of twelve Inspector General draft audit reports. In one case, more than 90 percent of the negative findings were expunged before the report was publicly released. Acting Inspector General Michael Carroll buried the embarrassing audit findings because he \u201cdid not want to create controversy as he awaited Senate confirmation to become the permanent inspector general,\u201d according to some AID auditors.<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s rhetoric bounced off AID\u2019s bureaucratic Teflon. A 2013 Congressional Research Service report quoted one AID bureaucrat: \u201cIf you don\u2019t ask [about results], you don\u2019t fail, and your budget isn\u2019t cut.\u201d More than thirty years ago, GAO captured AID\u2019s intransigence in perhaps its most sardonic report title ever: “Experience \u2014 A Potential Tool for Improving U.S. Assistance Abroad.” At least AID\u2019s \u201cfail-and-repeat\u201d tactic provides bureaucratic job security.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvidence-based\u201d evaluations have probably been applied to less than two percent of federal programs. This is akin to Obama preening that he will do an honest, balanced analysis on whether the US should intervene in the tiny African nation of Lesotho \u2014 at the same time he ramps up his war efforts in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and continues covertly warring in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia. And Obama has simply ignored evidence that did not suit his ambitions. When he began pushing his Affordable Care Act through Congress in 2009, there was already a proven history of federal intervention inflating medical costs and disrupting health care. But the president was far more concerned with creating a legacy than with learning from Medicare and Medicaid fiascos.<\/p>\n
The \u201cevidence based\u201d reform campaign presumes that politics is essentially a noble business in which public servants love nothing more than serving the public. But for politicians, programs are fiefdoms. How many kings have abdicated their thrones after becoming convinced that monarchy did not truly serve the downtrodden masses? Will politicians cede power after social scientists document how their favorite programs do more harm than good?<\/strong><\/p>\nH.L. Mencken noted that the main concern of elected politicians\u2019 souls \u201cis to keep a place at the public trough.\u201d Politicians will always be far more interested in verdicts from the voting booth than from the American Journal of Sociology. There is no reason to expect that fighting waste, fraud, and abuse will suddenly become more popular on Capitol Hill than reelection<\/strong>.
\nNote: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.<\/p>\nJames Bovard<\/a> is the author of ten books, including 2012\u2019s Public Policy Hooligan<\/strong><\/a>, and 2006\u2019s Attention Deficit Democracy. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, and many other publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mises Institute “The Austrian” Newsletter, Issue #1, 2015 The Absurdity of “Reform” in DC by James Bovard In the 1930s, peasants who were starving because of the Soviet regime\u2019s brutal farm collectivization policy lamented, \u201cIf only Stalin knew!\u201d Nowadays, American social scientists look at floundering federal programs and lament: \u201cIf only Congress knew!\u201d And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,149,415,181,15,52,497,194,563,213,82,163,164,38,272,165,486,151],"class_list":["post-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agricultural-policy","tag-agriculture","tag-boondoggle","tag-boondoggles","tag-congress","tag-democracy","tag-economics","tag-epigrams","tag-evidence-based-reform","tag-farm-subsidy","tag-foreign-aid","tag-intellectuals","tag-leviathan","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-paternalism","tag-reform","tag-waste"],"yoast_head":"\n
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