Statistical Ambiguity and Hypocrisy

Further to a previous blog on cost-benefit analysis of environmental planning, which often fails, you can see the hypocrisy of the same folks on non-environmental social issues.

Affordable housing and its so-called rights or needs is one. The right to health care no matter one’s personal wealth to pay on his own behalf, is another. Food stamps to those who really are not needy but have some emotional requirement is yet another. 

There is absolutely no useful reason why some measures are adopted by government except that they help politicians appeal to mass voter emotions.(See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)