[auboy]

I have had numerous experiences where I have reprimanded city staff for construing policy as law. Policy is not law, and many government underlings have difficulty separating the two.

Especially when they see $$$$ signs dancing in their heads.

The bottomline is that cavalier government employees get their jurisdictions into unnecessary trouble and legal expense over matters that can be solved in one closed door meeting.

Wasting time,money, and goodwill.

In your experience, do these government employees lack proper training and understanding, or have they let their perception of power go to their heads?

[Hostage]

Power goes to the head. It is human nature. Our entire system of government is designed to stem the flow of power to the tryrannic side of human nature.

In the aggregate sense, government employees always lack training and understanding because there is no contrasting alternative to their rule other than a competing private sector, unless the private sector has enlisted their support in which case the private sector is no longer competing, rather is complicit.

When a court limits the power of government over competing interests in the private sector, the employees of government become better trained and sensitive as a result. The problem is that the court is often a large and wasteful expense to accomplish this type of training and education. Compounding the problem is that the government does not pay for this legal training and education.