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Why Government Programs Avoid Success & Survive Failure

by Robert Eringer

Feb 14, 2026
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Ever wonder why problems overseen by government never get resolved?

You’re about to find out.

There is a pattern so reliable it might as well be a law of nature—except that it’s a law of government (or at least what government has become).

Once you see it, you see it everywhere.

It goes like this:

A real problem emerges.

The government responds.

A program is c…

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