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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	600K New Gov't Jobs
	Date:	1/7/2009 3:39:24 PM

I would never pretend that I think that the government is well run. It's not. I've always wondered why, when they want to overhaul the government, they never ask the people that work for it how to do it because I can tell you, the people know where the cuts need to be made.

I'll give you an example. When I worked for the Army, I was involved in a very controversial co-production of the Apache helicopter by the Brits. Between me and the Secretary of the Army, there were 4 layers of ADMINISTRATIVE review, whose job was to figure out whether the memorandums and such were in the proper format, that I didn't have an extra space somewhere or some other administrivia. So on a given day, when the Secretary of the Army was having a meeting with a member of industry, either US or Brits and this was to be discussed, he would need the latest information about where we were in our negotiations and actions. I would have to write it, stamp it "draft" and handcarry it to his military assistant, because once I put it into the review chain, it would take it two weeks to reach him. And it didn't matter how many red tags I put on it to indicate it was urgent or how many times I explained that he was having the meeting that day. So in the end, he got what he needed and my butt was covered because I only gave his Military assistant a "draft" and not an official piece of paper.