Left Hand – Right Hand
Politicians and government officials you just have to love them. Okay you really don’t have to love them, but they do the darndest things. As I sat through a recent presentation by a transportation official who was selling a program to construct additional roads within his district. I don’t know if you have heard, but there is a lot of stimulus money for shovel-ready projects to create billions of new jobs. It should not be a surprise to have a transportation agency wanting to build more roads. That’s the left hand.
provides a direct insight into the substitution of common sense for bureaucracy in America. Common sense and responsibility is replaced with tens of thousands of pages of rules that promote inaction rather than progress. Having worked for many years in government I can attest to the ability of civil servants to skillfully avoid decisions contrary to the letter of the regulation even though they make complete sense.