{"id":27314,"date":"2020-01-16T14:44:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T20:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=27314"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:44:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T20:44:33","slug":"evidence-based-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/16\/evidence-based-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Based Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever hear of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evidence-based_medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evidence Based Medicine<\/a><\/em>? We should have the same standard for government, regardless of who is running it. It&#8217;d dump pie-eyed dreamers like anyone who thinks the Laffer Curve has general relevance on their collective asses, for one thing.<\/p>\n<p>And I suspect Democratic candidate, and non-participant in the Tuesday night Democratic Presidential Debate, Andrew Yang would be its flag-bearer, since he appears to understand that many problems will succumb to Big Data analysis. Or at least so I gathered from his appearance last night on <strong><em>The Late Show<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But he doesn&#8217;t have the experience or the charisma to win the nomination. I expect he&#8217;ll be remembered for injecting interesting and important ideas into the public discourse &#8211; or at least trying. Which I know is no great insight, but that, I think, will be his legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Although he did throw his hat in the ring for a Cabinet level position, I noticed. I&#8217;m not sure he has the chops for that sort of thing, but we shall see. Given the knuckledraggers who&#8217;ve made it into Trump&#8217;s Cabinet, I&#8217;d say most three-toed sloths could serve and not be considered bottom-rung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever hear of Evidence Based Medicine? We should have the same standard for government, regardless of who is running it. It&#8217;d dump pie-eyed dreamers like anyone who thinks the Laffer Curve has general relevance on their collective asses, for one thing. And I suspect Democratic candidate, and non-participant in the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/01\/16\/evidence-based-government\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27315,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27314\/revisions\/27315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}