Re Rescue the Rescue ( Friedman, NYTimes)

You say "No system can be smart enough to survive this level of incompetence and recklessness by the people charged to run it."

T.S. Eliot, writing in the last Great Depression, in "Choruses from 'The Rock'", said it well.

"They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is shall shadow
The man that pretends to be."

It's worth reading the whole thing. There is a huge amount of content and reflection there.

"But you, have you built well,
that you now sit helpless in a ruined house?"

It is very hard to find the entire poem online, so here's a link to a copy in google books.
http://books.google.com...

— Raymond, Detroit