Why Is the Government In the Job Killing Business?

SEE HERE The government can't do anything very well, but it is especially bad at making anything remotely productive. The reason for that is that there's no internal quality check in the government on anything. The only government agency that does a remotely good job is the military and that's because they come up dead if they don't do a good job. Note that the uniformed military often has to give the civilians in the government agencies "what for" because they don't have to take fire if their oversight produces a bad product. It's all a game to the bureaucrats. They move paper from one desk to another and make the production of paper ever more complicated so that it employs ever more people. When I first worked for the government we could get a small contract out the door in about three or four weeks with about five signatures. By the time I stopped working for the government it was about seven months and thirty-five signatures for a contract denominated in the same amount, although the money had inflated so it was worth about half what it had been. I started out as a research scientist and was rapidly becoming a contract administrator, so I bailed out. Nothing like moving paper to make your blood stagnate.