So many ill-informed, big-media-blinded Americans don’t realize that Trump, RFK Jr. and DOGE’s aim isn’t some sinister plot, it’s an effort, for the first time in history, to eliminate the crushing bureaucracy that is choking the life out of every one of us. It’s obvious our media mavens are 100% behind all the bureaucracy they can get. Unless, of course, it messes with them.
One of the many problems with bureaucracy is that far too many people have to approve any authorization. This drags out approval timelines, and always results in most of those in the approval chain having little or no real knowledge about the specifics of any particular request. The organization I worked for before retiring was the pinnacle of bureaucratic. Approval processes would constantly expand and bloat in reaction to some one-off issue that arose somewhere. Instead of dealing with that particular case, they would just issue blanket edicts that bogged down the process for everyone.
Some examples: Our contracting process got so out of control that even after completing an RFP and selecting a vendor or consultant, it could take almost a year to get a contract approved. It made it almost impossible to do business, but no one seemed to care. Another: In a knee-jerk response to a small handful of travel expense issues, they changed our travel approval process to require every level up to and including the CFO to approve every travel request. It was idiotic. Above about one or two levels no one knew anything about the trip being requested, so had no personal knowledge to base any approval on, and the CFO certainly had no idea what she was approving. This change led to ridiculously long delays trying to get approvals, or even approval requests that would just never come back, requiring the requester to try to track down whose desk it was sitting on (and it was usually the CFO’s). Ironically, all this policy change did was actually INCREASE travel costs by introducing so much unpredictable delay that by the time approval was finally received the booking was last-minute, which dramatically increased the cost.