[Chad C. Mulligan]

The War on Poverty went from zero to end stage on Jerry Pournelle's "Iron Law of Bureaucracy" scale in less than ten years.

I met a guy, (fiance of a member of my extended family) who proudly announced at dinner that he'd received an award for reducing his child welfare office's overhead from 90% to 85%.

The "welfare constituency" the Democrats are playing to is the workers, not the "clients".

[Reeses]

The War on Poverty went from zero to end stage on Jerry Pournelle's "Iron Law of Bureaucracy" scale in less than ten years.

NATO turned into another self-licking ice cream cone in about the same time frame, only more European self-lickers, and the USA taxpayer holding the cone and paying for the most of the ice cream.