“It is an infirmity in our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they cannot produce.”
President Andrew Jackson (annual message to Congress, December 6, 1830)
I was thinking of this quote while watching Larry Summers on Meet the Press talking about the incentive package. Things wear the clothing of virtue when they happen to suit our interests; if we don't feel like we will directly benefit, we find a thousand faults.
By the way, I thought Summers was an arrogant ass; Obama may have changed some things, but some things never change.
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