their job was to find the "gray" areas and exploit them.
I don't necessarily subscribe to that view, but nobody can blame people for having it. The tax code is so ridiculously complex it keeps accountants busy all year doing just that.
Then in one fell swoop, Congress creates a health care package that takes 2400 pages just for their miserable contribution. When government agencies draft the Code of Federal Regulations for it, no bookshelf on earth will hold it.
Case in point: When my agency was formed it operated by a manual called "Use Book." The Use Book was 147 pages long, not even the size of a Louis L'Amour novel.
Now the manual is a huge set of binders, each of which holds close to a thousand pages.
http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Publications/1905_Use_Book/use_intro.aspx
A presidential proclamation in 1891, authorized the creation of the Forest Reserves in the United States. The General Land Office administered these lands until 1905, when the forest reserves were transferred to the newly created Forest Service. Gifford Pinchot, chief forester, and the "Use Book Committee" revised earlier regulations and instructions needed to guide the public and the Forest Officers in the use of the National Forest Reserves. Published in 1905 as The Use of the National Forest Reserves, it came to be known as the Use Book.. Annual editions of the Use Book were released. From its beginnings as a pocket-sized, 142-page document, the Forest Service manual has grown to encompass multiple volumes, in both print and electronic formats. |
