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October 28th 2008 Government, Statists

Dear Mr. President | Popular Science

For the first time ever, and under your leadership, the federal bureaucracy can become more accessible, more transparent and — most important — more effective than it’s ever been.

A more effective federal bureaucracy? Hi, we’re the government, and we’re here to help you really good and hard?

Thanks, but no thanks.

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  • steveegg
    October 28th, 2008 | #1

    If it were accompanied by a larger-than-proportional decrease in the scope and power of government, I could stand a more efficient one. Of course, I’m tilting at the proverbial windmill here.

  • martinra
    October 29th, 2008 | #2

    They’ll get more efficient at taking your money and nosing into your business. What they won’t get is cheaper, smaller, or less meddlesome. About the only slightly helpful change that might occur is that those of us with good search skills might be able to sort out the egregious and criminal abuses of power from the merely routine and authorized ones.

  • martinra
    October 29th, 2008 | #3

    I should clarify that in the above, “egregious and criminal” means “above and beyond the already authorized criminal behavior”. In no way did I mean to suggest that the current state of bureaucratic behavior in the USA was consonant with liberty, property rights, or any other of our natural rights that the Constitution was supposed to guarantee us.

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