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To: Dale Baker who wrote (15084)	3/25/2006 7:56:55 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541303

I suspect you and I would disagree about how people derail debates. It's not confined to what you term "pejorative terms". It is equally accomplished through blanket pronouncements without anything to back them up. Like Prop 13=reason for death of CA schools. "Throwing money at a problem" is a the flipside of such a statement and a natural response, imo. but let's not beat that dead horse. As to bureaucracies, I think they all should be limited. Expenses rise to meet the level of allocation. More people does not necessarily equate to better results or output. In many ways, the government (incl. Fed, state, municipal) has become the employer of last resort. It's also difficult to get rid of the dead weight. As for security, it's not surprising that there are inefficiencies. There didn't seem to be much thought given to coordination between all the security agencies before 9/11. The natural first reaction was to go overboard in the opposite direction. The result was more bureaucracy, which is difficult to constrict after it's been created. I'm not certain of what "policy" you say the left took for granted. Do you mean creating big bureaucracies in general?