From: Michael P. Read (mpread@cox.net)
Date: Tue Dec 24 2002 - 17:37:32 MST
>If government bureaucracies as currently structured
>tend to grow overlarge, cannot we look at that
>structure, find the factors at fault, and propose a
>restructuring aimed at improving the situation.
I don't see any reason why not.
>By way of a simple example--just a place to
>start--suppose you took a certain large bureaucracy,
>and split it in two. Suppose you gave management a
>base salary half the usual amount and then declared
>the two in competition with each other. Whichever
>half accomplished the most with the least would then
>receive the lions share
What would they be competing to do? Someone once said "Thank
God we don't get all the government we pay for." Inefficiency can
sometimes be a good thing.
>The top management of the losing side
>could then be dismissed/demoted, and a new top
>management team drawn from the remaining management
>pool, and the process repeated.
The problem isn't with the number of people. It's with how much
power they have. Still this idea might work to reduce government's
effective power in that there would be fewer of them to oppress us. It
would be de facto freedom instead of de jure freedom. God help you when
they caught up with you, though, since they would be very good at what
they do.
> If competition in the
>corporate world works, why not try to apply the same
>winning principle in the government sphere?
I'm not sure if I want my government to be better at what does
since it seems hell bent on making this nation less free. The only real
solution I see out of the problem is to change the philosophy of the
culture. The problem is that takes generations. But I don't see how
anything else would work since our government reflects the totality of
the ideas the American people hold.
Mike Read
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