05-03-2017, 12:42 AM
(05-02-2017, 01:20 PM)creative Wrote: It never ceases to amaze me how people are so quick to jump all over something without knowing the facts. We are quick to criticize decisions made by those in the know and with the expertise and experience.
Sometimes "those in the know" have good reasons for making a decision that seems, on its face, to not make sense. Other times they don't, and their decision can be a consequence of poor planning, questionable cost/benefit analysis, insufficient oversight, turf wars, political pressure, or all kinds of other reasons. Observers can be quite well informed as to the way those issues can contribute to an outcome, and have reasonable grounds to say that a bad outcome was probably avoidable. Certainly you can ask to try to find out the rationale, but how do you know whether you would get a rationale or an after-the-fact rationalization?
It's the responsibility of the government to make good, sensible decisions and to communicate those decisions along with appropriate context. It's the responsibility of the citizenry to hold them to account, supporting good outcomes and calling out poor ones.