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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The government is supposed to move slowly.  It’s supposed to have lots of checks and balances and not act suddenly.  People complain about this but they don’t realize that dynamic and chaotic changes in government are a disaster in many countries.  You really don’t want a gigantic ship to make sudden turns.  That’s what the private sector is for.  And why we shouldn’t bail them out.  [/quote]

While I sort of agree, I can’t stand all the busy work. Like to have a credit card so that you can purchase supplies for your team it requires hours of work every month to reconcile. Or the internal control reviews. Or all the budget exercises. Or records. Some weeks it’s very hard for me to get any work done and I am a hard worker. It’s like someone messed up once with their credit card so they put all these checks and balances in place, hire an FTE to manage it and in the end it costs more[/quote]

+1 to both points. There won’t be congressional hearings and front page news stories about exempt employees filling out their time cards wrong, but someone did it in my agency and now we have this awful software we have to use to mark everything down.

If a business takes a risk and something goes wrong the business loses money (and maybe gets bailed out if things are bad enough). If the feds take a risk and something goes wrong they will hear about it endlessly by peope making political points.

Also the very fact that we have a civil service managed by political appointees means things will never be as efficient as they could be. Imagine if the top layer of management at a big business never stayed more than a couple years. [/quote]

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