The People Writing the Rules Have Never Run the Place

The people writing the rules have never run the place.

Reagan said it in 1964. A little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

A published rule is not a finished job. Count the truck, the forest, and the kill floor. Not the memo.

They walked into 75 years of paper written by people who do not live in the backyard.

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