Bureaucracy, Time to Downsize
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
Eugene McCarthy
Bureaucracy gets a consistently bad press, sometimes unfairly and perhaps just as often with justification. The bureaucrats of our nation keep things going between the chaotic changings of administrations and congresses, keep the wheels greased and a continuity to the delivery of government. Without all those worker-bees we disdainfully call bureaucrats, we'd be up to our knees with things to do and no one properly trained to do them.
Having said that, we're probably forty percent too large bureaucratically and the growth comes because, for the most part, nothing ever gets shut down. Like a business that hasn't the need to show a profit, there always seem more desks to fill, more papers to push. Agriculture is but one example. The sheer numbers of farmers who produce our food have declined from forty-three percent of the population at the turn of the century to less than two percent now and yet the D…