Bovard is bound to have started a sequel already. Next he announces at a press conference he has the cure in the form of another government program. Parasites in the form of politicians, businesses, and individuals see that they can acquire money, power, and celebrity status by hopping on board the pain train. Some kind of program is created. The program fails.
Politicians deny the failure and seek additional funding.
The taxpayer pays the bill without protest. The cycle begins again. I have picked just two small examples from the book to illustrate the process. Clinton perceived that citizens were in pain about crime and decided that local police could not fight crime alone, despite the fact that crime was actually decreasing. A 1994 crime bill sought to put 100,000 more police on the street.