Friday, December 4, 2009

Someone should explain to Obama that productivity is GOOD.

In a(NOTHER) speech today, Obama complained that companies were doing more with fewer people."That's something we have to work on."
Obviously this doesn't apply to government. Yoda noticed, years ago, while in government the "Conservation of Boxes in Reorganizations." This refers to boxes on an organization chart. Whenever, a section or department was reorganized and the hierarchy reporting to some executive divided or partially hived off, that executive would immediately REORGANIZE what was left but with new boxes, albeit presently unoccupied, or virtual. The number of boxes, real and virtual, that reported to him would be the same. Eventually, they would be filled.
This derives from two simple questions that one can address to any government bureaucrat:
1) Do you want a bigger budget or a smaller one?
2) Do you want more people reporting to you or fewer?
Since accomplishment and success in a bureaucracy is measured only by the size of the budget one has to spend and the number of people one has to manage, one can only imagine what effect these have on efficiency or productivity or governmental waste.(This is aside from the important question: what harm is this bureaucracy and these bureaucrats doing?)

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