> ... and Gore's signature initiative, "Reinventing Government", really did something.
Alas, much of what it really did was harmful. This is my favorite example of Ds picking up on some bit of shit-for-brains R advocacy (Clinton was riffing off of Reagan's complaints about Government On Your Back, There's Too Many Bureaucrats, which Reaga…
> ... and Gore's signature initiative, "Reinventing Government", really did something.
Alas, much of what it really did was harmful. This is my favorite example of Ds picking up on some bit of shit-for-brains R advocacy (Clinton was riffing off of Reagan's complaints about Government On Your Back, There's Too Many Bureaucrats, which Reagan and Bush I were both happy to complain about without actually proposing viable "solutions") and actually treating it as a serious problem to be addressed with a real-world solution.
Reinventing Government took a serious hatchet to the Federal head count. The problem was, most of those "useless bureaucrats" were doing something *important*, something that needed doing, that still needed doing after the Federal headcount for doing it got the ax. Which is how we got to the situation where much of what the Feds *should* be doing in-house is getting done at 3x the cost by private contractors. Who generally lack the career-long dedication to the mission that is really required to do a good job. This is one of the great unreported stories of the last 30 years, how the Federal Government has literally lost its brains.
> ... and Gore's signature initiative, "Reinventing Government", really did something.
Alas, much of what it really did was harmful. This is my favorite example of Ds picking up on some bit of shit-for-brains R advocacy (Clinton was riffing off of Reagan's complaints about Government On Your Back, There's Too Many Bureaucrats, which Reagan and Bush I were both happy to complain about without actually proposing viable "solutions") and actually treating it as a serious problem to be addressed with a real-world solution.
Reinventing Government took a serious hatchet to the Federal head count. The problem was, most of those "useless bureaucrats" were doing something *important*, something that needed doing, that still needed doing after the Federal headcount for doing it got the ax. Which is how we got to the situation where much of what the Feds *should* be doing in-house is getting done at 3x the cost by private contractors. Who generally lack the career-long dedication to the mission that is really required to do a good job. This is one of the great unreported stories of the last 30 years, how the Federal Government has literally lost its brains.
Thanks, that's important. I may tweak the text to make the point.
Did tweak it, in fact.