Some things aren’t supposed to be fixed, and we shouldn’t try. Every government there ever was pretended to be doing good. Many people justify getting into government with the idea that they will be “doing good”. This rarely happens. The would-be doers of good quickly run into the stone walls that have been erected to protect the cash flows of whatever department they’re in. They either leave government “service” or they conform to the bureaucrats’ universal goal of increasing funding.
When we look, for instance, at the Department of Agriculture, we see thousands of employees who have labored for decades to produce, every few years, an improved “Food Pyramid”. They’re happy doing such things, and it does little good to try to fire them.
Attempting to get rid of even the most useless, let alone the most harmful, agencies and departments sends an automatic alarm bell to the others, who increase their ongoing efforts to eliminate whatever freedom mere citizens have to exercise any sort of control over their government meaningful enough to reduce spending.
It’s better to pray for their souls, a bigger job than most of us are ready to undertake.
