From my textbook this morning

"Planners begin by attempting to transform their environment and end by being absorbed into it. This pattern of failure is most evident in the poor countries of this world...Planning fails everywhere it has been tried....If governments perseverate in national planning, it must be because their will to believe triumphs over their experience. Planning is not so much for the social scientist as it is for the theologian."

I've been debating whether or not to drop out. This pretty much says it all.