When long-term policies are enacted, such as pensions following Lord Turner's commission under Labour, they can be overturned overnight.
During both the Bush and the Obama Administrations, ExxonMobil has concentrated its efforts in Washington on preventing certain tax and regulatory bills from being enacted, such as Obama's proposal, this winter, to strip away industry tax advantages.
But more growth is coming, even if reforms are enacted, such as overhauling the student loan program and allowing students to receive a full refund if, after a few weeks or a semester, they are not happy with what they have signed up for.
And, alarmingly, new discriminatory laws are being enacted, such as Kenya's 2014 Marriage Act, which permits polygamy. .
A few international legal mechanisms have already been enacted such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ("ICCPR") which grants minorities the right "to enjoy culture and to use language".
The only way to force such change is through legislation, but that legislation will not be enacted as long as such "radical" policies are viewed - quite correctly - as an electoral liability by the three main parties.
As a first step, we should at the very least be enacting policies such as levying a land value tax on, at a minimum, all undeveloped developable land that is worth above £2m in value.
Eventually, these will be enacted as well.
If such a law were enacted, fictional occupations such as "Published Author" as well as "International Speaker," "Entrepreneur," "Producer" - along with a host of fallacious "Certifications" would disappear from the myriad spams I continue to receive.
In this case, control measures such as antiviral should be enacted earlier to alleviate the epidemic growth.
