One of the biggest economic fallacies, committed over and over again, is ignoring the long-term, indirect consequences of a particular policy. Good economic policy analysis always means assessing a policy's impacts on all groups in the long run, rather than just the impacts on some groups in the short run.
For those who are vaguely aware of the Solyndra scandal, but don’t know just how deep Obama and Biden stepped in it; here’s a quick video put out by IER (a free-market energy think tank). In short, the Obama Administration fast tracked Solyndra's loan application, and now $535,000,000 million dollars of American tax payer money is gone along with 1,000 "green" jobs.
We all have to deal with the opportunities and challenges presented by widespread video technology. The same is true for police. But law enforcement might prefer that cameras not be a part of their interactions with citizens. Citizens should have the right to record their interactions with police and police should be required to record their most intense interactions with citizens. The video features attorneys David Rittgers and Clark Neily and journalist Radley Balko.
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