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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (501677)	12/1/2003 7:10:54 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

All government bureaucracies are inherently inefficient And you know this how? Are they all equally inefficient or are some more inefficient than others? If they are not equally inefficient that means that they could be made more efficient. They're eating up tank treads like crazy. Tanks aren't supposed to be running around like commuter cars. This isn't bureaucratic inefficiency, it's high-level incompetence. Rumsfeld's brilliant planning failed to account for any failures in the program. That gets him booted back to the kitchen to bake cookies. Even the most basic business knows that it has to plan to fail. That way it isn't dependent on everything going right, it has contingencies and alternatives built in from the get-go. That is why government should be ask to do only that which no one else can possibly do. What is it doing that others could do? I'm all for killing off all porkers that keep incumbents in office.

To: DMaA who wrote (501677)	12/1/2003 7:16:22 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Actually many corporate beaurocracies are less efficient than government beaurocracies. What you said is a myth. In disorganized countries beaurocracies are disorganized but if we organize well and have smart people in charge it's no problem. Government also takes the profit out of it which can save consumers tons of money. IMHO a happy mix is the best bet. There are some areas corporations cannot be trusted to run things. That has been proven. Bush's attempt to privatize everything is a BAD idea. Proof: New Mexico's prison systems were privatized and have been run very poorly, the public money looted. One example of many.