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To: Dale Baker who wrote (435)	6/6/2005 9:36:08 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 541388

Maybe I am just a cynic. I can appreciate that. I'm a skeptic if not a cynic. But we cannot just keep piling things on top of other things without it giving out from the sheer weight. There was a serious reinvention effort under the Clinton administration and it made some progress at operational levels. But it takes a while to institutionalize that sort of thinking so it doesn't stick when administrations change. And the real problem is the sausage making that goes on in Congress, which couldn't be farther from a systems approach. It is not unusual for legislation to at cross purposes. That can't be fixed in the agencies via processes and regulation. This problem is inherent to our system of government. Legislators come up with programs that resonate in sound bites with voters, compromise in the most bizarre ways to get the stuff passed, and don't consider the long-term consequences, an interest of yours. That's inevitable. The only solution is to constrain the scope of their engagement. One way to do that is take a more federalist approach, keeping the feds out of what has been assigned by the Constitution to the states. Another is to foster the culture of reinvention long term as smart business practice. Another is a Supreme Court that will constrain the Congress. I don't subscribe to starving the feds as an approach because it doesn't work in practice, but I understand why people advocate the taxpayer strike and I suppose it could trigger something useful. Another is a catastrophe that shakes up the populace enough to change its attitude about Nanny Sam. Another is simply to stop making things worse. I read recently about legislation to require internet phone service providers to find a way to offer 911 service. It just keeps adding up.

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