Our Leaders have brought us a couple of shockingly ineffective policies over the past few decades. The drug war economics bear out the fact that supply is much more elastic than demand for drugs, and that the drug war is basically unwinnable.
And of course FreewayBlogger has been pointing out the error of our military and automotive policies with the wonderful Hummer slogan “10 miles/gallon, 2 soldiers/day.” Not to mention the the delightfully chilling “You can have my gun when you pry it from the fingers of my cold, dead child.”