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To: TimF who wrote (12608)	5/10/2002 1:20:02 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

"You provided a summary of your points but you proved nothing." The summary was the proof. I can post it again if you like. "The amount of scrutiny one program provided by one subsection of one office in one department gets is often almost non-existant." That is untrue. The scrutiny is intense. That is why we are so aware of mismanagement, fragmentation, duplication, etc. The same exists in private industry, but it is private, so you may not hear about it till the reverse split... "IF you have 5 jobs to get done, and you spend all your time getting the first two done then you don't get all the work done" Whatever the requirements of the job one is doing...doing it productibvely means doing it to completion or to standard. It does not matter to a lawyer that he is not also a surgeon. Productivity is evaluated by what is being done, not by how much time is left to spend on other things. I do not have to cook a meal to claim that the work I did rotating my tires was productive. "government programs are not always based on the desires of the people, and often can act against the desires and the interests of the people" When you have a particular public program which you think may be improved, then you ought to criticize THAT program without generalization or flippancy. Just as when you dislike a particular private program, you complain to the management. You don't condemn all private industry as unproductive, fraudulent, unskilled or whatever.