Haste Makes Waste: On With the Revolution!!!

There's yet another problem coming to the fore with certain cars: steering. It seems that in their continuing quest to make cars lighter - struggling to comply with government mandated fuel efficiency standards - automakers have decided that a computer chip would eliminate the need for a considerably heavier steering-assist motor assembly. There have been problems with under and over-steering. I can't help but thinking that Toyota's acceleration woes are due to much of the same. There is no reason why the old, reliable and time-tested systems should be replaced simply to meet some government mandate based on what we now all know is faulty science. This is precisely how mistakes happen – mistakes that could have been avoided under normally occurring market-based timelines.

It is perhaps a sign of the times that our government – sensing itself on the ropes – declares that everything must now be done in a rush. Health care must be passed now; the same with jobs (bill); cap and trade; education and banking reform; immigration; don’t ask, don’t tell; energy independence; and so many others. The rush is on perhaps to avoid the shifting of political realities; or, perhaps, to build monumental political legacies; or, perhaps more ominously, to overwhelm the system a la the Cloward-Piven (strategy).

As the old adage, “Haste makes waste,” will continue to hold true, perhaps the whole point of all of this is precisely: ‘waste’ the old, on with the revolution!!!