Comments on: Too Many Czars

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:46:51 +0000

Aren't jesters funny?

We need to get a Czar on that.

Huh. I wonder how you'd get around that - you don't want to go back to the era where the bureaucracies were heavily dominated by the spoils system (assuming that's even possible for the US today), but you also need to re-orient at least part of the current bureaucracies.

Simple, give the people at the bottom of one org chart authority to work with the people at the bottom of the other org chart. Limit authorization escalation to 2 levels, if your boss's boss won't make a decision and bear the responsibility of it, he shouldn't be in that position.

By: rodney dill

rodney dill — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:38:47 +0000

Apparently we now need a shoe Czar

By: Joe R.

Joe R. — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:17:04 +0000

caj relax, Triumph is our resident...uhhh...curmudgeon...no...jester, yeah he is our jester.

Aren't jesters funny?

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:10:05 +0000

They're basically too lazy/chicken/incapable of actually reforming the bureaucracies in question to work closer together or work on a problem they want them to (or they're too cheap to simply create a new bureaucracy with connections to the old one out of whole cloth), so they create an overarching "authority figure" with vaguely defined power. Huh. I wonder how you'd get around that - you don't want to go back to the era where the bureaucracies were heavily dominated by the spoils system (assuming that's even possible for the US today), but you also need to re-orient at least part of the current bureaucracies. I guess one way would be to build a new bureaucracy and slowly phase out the old one's unnecessary tasks (and people), but that would involve getting into fights with the public sector unions (the Union of Federal, State, and Local Government Employees is a major political donor).

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:57:01 +0000

Can you do us all a favor and please get a "real" life!!!!

caj relax, Triumph is our resident...uhhh...curmudgeon...no...jester, yeah he is our jester.

By: caj

caj — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:25:56 +0000

Next thing you know, you'll be throwing shoes!

Posted by Triumph | December 15, 2008 | 05:41 pm

I wouldn't waste my energy!

By: Triumph

Triumph — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:41:22 +0000

Do you never get tired of yourself....you keep coming up with all this gibberish?????
Can you do us all a favor and please get a "real" life!!!!

Typical liberal response--can't address the substance of a critique so you just try to shout down your adversary.

Next thing you know, you'll be throwing shoes!

By: caj

caj — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:37:10 +0000

A Ruskie-phile like Hussein will likely begin to think he is a Balgojevich-type czar himself and use the public coffers to enrich himself and his Kenyan patron, the dictator Adewale Ogunleye

Posted by Triumph | December 15, 2008

Do you never get tired of yourself....you keep coming up with all this gibberish?????
Can you do us all a favor and please get a "real" life!!!!

By: Triumph

Triumph — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:29:38 +0000

It is certainly predictable that an authoritarian liberal like Obama would expand the number of czars on his watch.

A Ruskie-phile like Hussein will likely begin to think he is a Balgojevich-type czar himself and use the public coffers to enrich himself and his Kenyan patron, the dictator Adewale Ogunleye