[shaggy eel]

,,, I'd go along with that. Sadly, the new models of efficiency are the drug trade and their allied derivatives. I think the more government can be removed from your life, the better off you are though - and ever increasingly, governments simply can't be held up as models of efficiency. I firmly believe the most dangerous group on the planet are bureaucrats.

[marajade]

I firmly believe the most dangerous group on the planet are bureaucrats.

Agree with you and I think so would Pres. Bush. Did you know he and his executive staff carry index cards to track gov't programs in relation to meeting their performance measures? And that once a program is determined to be ineffective, Bush will recommend that the program get defunded?