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To: ManyMoose who wrote (161068)	3/18/2006 12:20:52 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

I worked for a government agency my entire career. For most of that period, it was the finest agency in government. Must not have been HUD or Department of Education. <ggg>

To: ManyMoose who wrote (161068)	3/18/2006 3:29:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

<Government agencies can be good, but they have to stick to the mission and not get diverted by pressure group politics. Unfortunately that did happen.> An odd effect of governments and big companies is that they are far less than the sum of the individuals in them. Governments being especially bad as they don't have competitors [corporations do have to make a profit or die]. Government employees can be dedicated, talented, energetic, creative [not normally or well-stifled if they are], but usually the goal is pointless or counterproductive. Working to achieve a dopey thing is not good, though the workers can be doing a great job of digging holes and filling them in again. Even if they are trying to do something useful, profit is not the goal and diversion for political ends is normal. The goal gets lost in the mess. I have been grateful for government owned hospitals and government-employed doctors, for example. But I prefer private hospitals and doctors competing for business. Government hospitals are a pain in the neck [literally in the case of my buddy]. The hospital is run for the staff, not the "customer" who doesn't have a choice of the service they get. Mqurice