Homeland Security and other boondoggles
Mother Jones
by Bruce Falconer
08/25/08
‘Government likes to begin things — to declare grand new programs and causes,’ President Bush said in 2001 at the unveiling of his ‘Management Agenda,’ a program aimed at improving the performance of federal agencies. ‘But good beginnings are not the measure of success. What matters in the end is completion. Performance. Results.’ In subsequent years, the Bush administration gave birth to numerous new executive departments, offices, and programs of its own — and the results are in. A stroll through the graveyard of best intentions …
http://tinyurl.com/5dtraa
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bruce+Falconer
by Bruce Falconer
08/25/08
‘Government likes to begin things — to declare grand new programs and causes,’ President Bush said in 2001 at the unveiling of his ‘Management Agenda,’ a program aimed at improving the performance of federal agencies. ‘But good beginnings are not the measure of success. What matters in the end is completion. Performance. Results.’ In subsequent years, the Bush administration gave birth to numerous new executive departments, offices, and programs of its own — and the results are in. A stroll through the graveyard of best intentions …
http://tinyurl.com/5dtraa
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bruce+Falconer
rudkla - 3. Sep, 08:49
