We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, somebody who's actually created jobs, manufactures products, understands the incentives and disincentives, the intended and unintended consequences of legislation.

For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!

from The Ninja and The Diplomat (coming in September 2015)--As an unintended but ineluctable consequence of the one child policy, he and his wife, like most of his generation and those succeeding, consisted of only children; hence his family included no aunts or uncles, no cousins, and no nieces or nephews. The Chinese family had lost an immeasurable dimension of richness.

We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.