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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	BTW Hound
	Date:	2/21/2011 8:13:55 PM

I could recount for you example after example where industry had some pretty unhappy international customers, that the USG stepped in and smoothed over. One thing about the Defense industry is their ability to blame the USG for their own failures. But, I won't.
Performance standards? Really? Gee, under Rumsfeld DoD did make a wholesale change in their performance standards. In fact, it was developed by a private consultant and cost well over $2M to implement. Have you noticed an appreciable change?
It's not the old time employees that are the problem. In fact, most of the senior level leadership are political appointees or civilians with well less than 15 years of service. My observation is that the political appointees are more a problem than any of the employees. Most of them are gutless and spineless.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that government employees are not held accountable. Must be another one of those myths floating around. Is Congress accountable? Not really. Are political appointees held accountable? Not really.

You aren't going to change government. what you need to realize that government is NOT private industry. It will never work like private industry, because it is Not Private Industry.

And you want to shut down the government? Fine with me. I'll let you explain it to the veterans who are awaiting a decision on their benefit cases, those who are trying to get passports and those who don't get their SS checks and those private contractors who won't get paid, because the offices where they work won't be open. Even those who are waiting for their IRS refunds. It's just a stupid political stunt. Totally irresponsible. Gee, and I thought we were going to see real leadership, responsibility and accountability from the Republicans.. Instead of doing anything useful, they are trying to shut down Planned Parenthood and NPR. That's going to make a huge difference to the deficit.