The hardship of taramasalata.

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTilting at Windmills - Brief article

Government programs have a tendency to outlive their usefulness, to continue long after their original purpose has been accomplished. One of my favorite examples of this comes from an article by James Bennet, the new editor of The Atlantic, written while he was working here in 1991. It described how the Rural Electrification Agency lasted long after every farm in America had been wired by finding other worthy projects, such as helping out country clubs.

The most recent example I've discovered was in an article about hardship pay for the State Department's overseas posts. It describes how money to pay...

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