Crap Directive #1
The Pentagon aka the Five Sided Squirrel Cage |
In their wisdom
the denizens of the Pentagon came up with a whole new level of bureaucracy they
dubbed "Contract Review and Procurement." As everybody knows the army is likes acronyms
and for this bureaucracy the acronym was "CRAP" after much bustling
around the new bureaucracy moved into the office above us after displacing the
old bureaucracy. Finally the new boys got to exercise their new found authority
with CRAP Directive #1. The general took
one look at CRAP Directive #1 and said that's enough crap, and that was the end
of them.
It's too bad that
general isn't around today because at least he was able to see through what was
going on and nip it in the bud. Today we are faced with a situation where we
are regulated to death it doesn't mean that our leaders brought us to this
situation knowingly because in many cases what was done is a result of good
intentions. Well let me tell you the road to good intentions as the same as the
road to hell and is usually paved with good intentions.
The purpose of
this blog is to point out where some of these good intentions have gone astray
or in some cases where things that are needed are often lost in partisan
politics. At present where suffering from the worst economic downturn since the
1930s when many people unemployed. If you believe the government's figures the
unemployment rate is posted be around 8.2% in reality it's probably over 20%
because of the number of workers that have given up on trying too find a job. And
for the past four years our leadership is fiddled while Rome has burned.
There is so much
finger-pointing that is going on in Washington and in our state
capitals been in many cases the politicians are all of touch with reality. What
is needed more than anything right now is some kind of a policy that will put
the unemployed back to work? At least during the 1930s the lack of job
situation was recognized and steps were taken to remedy the problem.
This took the form
of two government agencies namely the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and
the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) as well as some projects like Hoover dam and the Golden Gate Bridge . We need some
projects like these now to put the unemployed back to work and more important
to put some needed money back into the economy.
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