The Greatest Excuse Ever—For Everything

When asked why $350 billion already spent on government bailouts had brought about no noticeable improvement in the economy, a Treasury official stated recently that things would have been worse if the Treasury had not acted as it did.

When George Bush was recently asked how he summed up the war in Iraq, he said that had we not gotten rid of Saddam the world would certainly be worse today than it is now.

Comments like these got me thinking. What a great excuse we have here—for everything. Just say that if what was done had not been done, things would have turned out worse than they actually did. No one can possibly prove otherwise. By simply concocting an alternative history that didn’t happen with a history that did, and making the former out to be worse, you can justify any actions.

So now I’ve decided to implement this approach in my own life. Nothing I did was ever wrong. Everything I did was better than what would have transpired had I not acted so. Go prove otherwise!