Brownie's "good job" and "bad job" ...

[chicagiana]

Has anyone read this on the front (web) page of the Washington Post. It's an amazing glimpse into beaureaucratic disfunction: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR2005122202213.html.

What really sticks out to me is that these people who emphasize dynamic outsourcing models in the public sector are completely incapable of engaging in producer/consumer models when they're put in charge of a government agency. The other thing that sticks out is all the top down "planning" that these people do (re-reference all the high level "process" that had to take place before Richard Clarke could talk to GW Bush about all the terrorist "noise" pre-9/11). Republicans were supposedly about the little guy going out there and getting it done.

At the end of the day, these people seem to be control freaks who don't really listen to the people who actually do the work. They seem to be a bunch of petty children squabbling over who will control the most resources in the organization chart.

Finally, I think that ALL org charts should be drawn in crayon as that is the level of mentality that it takes to obsess about them.

[Coastie for Truth]

1. Link to original article in Washington Post (Last night)

followed by a discussion of the failure of the National Guard (wasn't there - in Iraq), FEMA (dysfunctional), and the NGO's - Red Cross and Salvation Army (vastly overloaded) and the --

Added: The "State Guard Forces" wear National Guard uniforms and insignia - but belong 100% to the state, can not be called up by the Feds -- and in major disasters they run the "Emergency Operations Centers" when you have the local Volunteer Fire Department, Red Cross, Salvation Army, police, and Guard Armory -- mostly for rural areas. No pay, no retirement credit, and in some states no "workers comp" if they are injured while working a disaster.

[progdonkey]

2. Republican incompetence in a nutshell...

At the end of the day, these people seem to be control freaks who don't really listen to the people who actually do the work. They seem to be a bunch of petty children squabbling over who will control the most resources in the organization chart.

That is probably the most perfect expression of the Republican mindset I've read. Republicans bitch about "bureaucratic red tape" getting in the way of "efficiency," but it really just comes down to being control freaks. Whether they are in a private or government office, they don't want anyone else to tell them they can't or must do something. "I'm in charge of this office/company and I'll decide when I'm good and ready what is going to be done, and I'm not going to let anyone else tell me that what I'm doing is incorrect or unethical."

It's really little more than incompetence-cum-ideology.