[Buckeye McFrog]

EVERY bureaucrat is taught this tactic the day they leave the womb. From IRS Commissioner all the way down to the guy running your local county dog license bureau.

[riverdawg]

When I worked in DC (mea culpa), we used to call it the Washington Monument Syndrome. There would be a temporary, across-the-board federal budget freeze and the first thing the National Park Service would do is eliminate weekend admissions to the Washington Monument.