“Such is the “big lie” of bureaucracy - they don’t want to solve the problem they’re working on.”
BINGO!!!! IMO this is and will be the best post of the day. It is so true — you must have worked around bureaucrats like I have. Rarely, if ever, do they show any real compassion for their constituients.
However, their energy and enginuity are amazing when it comes to protecting and expanding their job security and organizational empires. The worst thing that can happen to a bureaucrat is for their program to be scaled back or shut down.
They are scrambling to make sure that they spend all of the remaining FY10 $$. The current FY ends Sep 30th and they scramble to spend it all so their budget is reduced for FY11 as of Oct 1st.
Thank you for the nice compliment on my post.
This issue illustrates one of the main fallacies of Marxism - it assumes human nature can “progress”, and thus be engineered to be some communal creature. But the survival instinct goes deep, and these social reengineering schemes are foiled by the self-preservation instinct of the reengineers.