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Well; this is a great story; about how a news person can blame every liberal in San Fransisco when the bureaucracy does not work. Show me one example anywhere on the planet where bureaucracies work! Gertrude Stein had it about right. A Bureaucracy is a bureaucracy. They cannot be compared to a watch even if they do mark time. They cannot be compared to a car because they go no where. They can be compared to a bump on a log, but how can anyone be totally frustrated at the inertia of a bump on a log? One thing coming out of the Republican era begun by Lincoln, was the professional civil servant. No more of spoils; but also no more of training effective, and responsible administrators who actually had to get something done in order to gain support for their party, and, for their rehiring. Lincoln was a Postman, and as such he could get to know the needs of his people, and he had to balance his books, and it was good training. If Bureaucracies today seem uncaring and unresponsive, it is because they cannot be got rid of like lice, and can count on an easy meal on a soft seat. So don't blame the liberals when the bureaucracy does not work. The bureaucracy dragged its inventers, the Ottoman Turks, into the grave; and it will do the same for us if we let it. The answer is to have every administration take control of the civil service from top to bottom, and if they do not serve, then clean the house. Anything less robs government of its proper function, and destroys its ability to do good. Now, you're not going to fire every liberal in San Fransisco for what one or two bureaucrats could not manage to get done. How about you get those who failed all the people fired? Let me see you do that. That would be a work of pure magic; and you know it. Thanks; Sweeney