it is not that efficiency is a myth ... e.g. the lean nimble business able to respond and adapt in a heart beat to circumstance ... grow payroll, shrink payroll, add a service, quit one ... whatever, all based on supply and demand, all based on margins, all untethered by cumbersome labor (union) obligations, pensions a so on.
Cool. I get it.
But WTF does that have to do with government?
Things are good this year, I think I will field a Police force ... ooops, kinda have an off year (and in the spirit of lean and mean), suspend that operation.
The role of government is absolute reliability. A police man today, one yesterday, one tomorrow. THe role of government is the anti-thesis of the nature of a well-run business (and hence why business and government, in the absence of a fascist sate ARE SEPARATE!.
To equate my roof (there every day, always maintained) to a pup tent (something I use when circumstances warrant) is stupid neocon fantasy. Moreover, we have done that. WWII (in case folks were napping during their public school education).
So, when times are good, gov runs a surplus (the New Moderate Dems did that, see Bill Clinton) but the neocons demanded lightning governemnt, a roof on my house hat I take off that day, cause it looks pretty sunny. No. This is the place of enterpise, not of government.
Government SHOULD actually be a little fat, a little slow, a little cumbersome, a little annoying.
Governement is not private enterprise.
The current Red notion is to put in an efficiency manager to run gov ... add and cut on the fly, lean and mean.
It is actually really expensive to dismantle a roof on Monday and replace it on Tuesday. WWII was very expensive.
Peopel WILL respond to ever escalating inequality. God and the cat might agree with the neocon, but it is not God nor the cat that will decide these matters.
The 99%ers and the TeaBaggers will, a some point join, it has never been pretty (ask Jewish people of Northern European Ancestry) but they will unite, and they will likely be angry beyond reason when they do.
It is not the role of government to be quick, efficient, nimble or reactionary ... it is the role of government to be NONE OF THE ABOVE.
Government should be thick, predictable, reliable, and adequately efficient.
Mittens is the wrong man for the job.
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