The temptation, when a great mistake has been made, is to seek ever more desperate excuses to sustain the mistake, rather than admit the terrible consequences of what you have done.
And to admit the emotional consequences seems a little soft, doesn't it?
Instead of looking for a new solution, Congress should admit the unintended negative consequences of its previous good will and repeal the minimum wage.
The theorem of Johnson and Rees admits the following consequence.
Even the current director general, Kenneth Plummer, has admitted that the consequences will be less quality programming.
And he admitted that the consequences of failure would be "grievous and far-reaching".
The option of lying and denying it didn't seem to occur to him - but then nor, he admits, had the consequences for the property market of his words.
The body which represents councils in Wales admitted the longer term consequences - such as growing mortality rates - was a problem, but said it was not possible to protect every service provided by councils.
