Gubmint 101
Ya can't understand gubmint if ya don't understand "organizations". That's what gubmint is ya know. A bunch of organizations. More on that later.
Organizations, specially gubmint organizations, are created to solve a problem which may or may not exist. It really doesn't matter because the gubmint is going to pretend that the problem exists and that it is much worse than anyone ever thought and that only gubmint can solve it. Global warming is a prime example. Sounds good at first, but the truth is that once an organization is formed it becomes a living breathing entity will goals and objectives of it's own which may (probably) be in direct conflict with resolving the problem the organization was created to solve. That is "paraphrasing" of an idea I got from either "Up The Organization" by Robert Townsend or "The Peter Principle" by Lawrence J Peter or "Parkinsons Law" by Northcotte C Parkinson. I can't remember which but I can tell ya that you will be a better person if ya read all three of them.
Take, for example, a gubmint organization started off with the intent of handling the solution of poverty. Soon as the organization is formed it develops it's own goals of survival and growth which run in direct conflict with the notion of eliminating poverty. If it eliminates poverty there is no longer any need for the organization to survive or grow. Ya can expect that any gubmint organization created to solve the problem of poverty is gonna spend at least half it's budget documenting how bad poverty is (even if they have to conjure up data or redifine poverty before lunch every Thursday before they go home for the week end) in order to show that it is getting worse and that the "organization" designed to fight poverty needs to have it's own never ending charter (thus insuring survival) and a bigger budget each and every year (insuring growth).
This brings us to "Baseline Budgeting" which is where elected officials become so distracted by the constant stream of lies being told them by the various agencies that they are unable to keep the lies they told their constituents straight. So they decide, that they will just give everybody a ten percent budget increase every year. What that should tell ya about gubmint organizations is that no matter what problem they are created to resolve it's gonna be ten percent worse next year than it would be if ya just left it alone. If ya know anythin at all about the rule of 72 it will tell ya that a ten percent increase every year for 7.2 years will double the budget for gubmint. This should tell ya that whatever problem the gubmint organization was created to resolve will be twice as bad in ten years as it would have been if ya just ignored it and hoped it would go away.
Another thing about baseline budgeting is that if the Gubmint Department of Counting grains of sand on the beaches only gets a 7% increase one year instead of the normal 10% they don't call it a 7% increase, they call it a 3% cut. That way the organization can go off wringing it's hands about how hard it is going to be for them to get all the sand on all the beaches counted now and it also lets the politicians go home and tell their constituents what a frugal and responsible electee they are and that they should be returned to the public service where they have to put in sometimes as much as ten hours a week about a dozen weeks a year minus vacation and holidays of course.
Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!
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