"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Janet B." > wrote:
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>
>> Hon, we're throwing money everywhere except where it is needed. I posted
>> the link because it demonstrates again that ultimately here is another
>> aspect of our government that has no one responsible entity. Our
>> government is so screwed up and piece-mealed that we need to scrap the
>> whole
>> thing and start over from scratch.
>
> Good idea, but do you really think we'd end up with anything different?
> I used to work for the feds. They came up with ZBB (zero based
> budgeting). Start from scratch. That's right, throw away all of your
> experience and knowledge! Start from scratch! Ok, how do you do that?
> Well, first you take last year's budget, and then...

Just another version of the corporate 5-year-plan. First you centralize
everything to make it more efficient and then 5 years later you decentralize
everything to make it more efficient. You're probably right, we're doomed,
there is no way out of this morass. But seriously, doesn't anyone in
government see anything strange about the fact that we have half as many
inspectors today as when the program was started in the '70's? And that our
imports and consumption has increased exponentially since then? Well, sure
they do, but there are these special interests that have to be taken care of
first.
Janet