Timewarp in shades of Grey

The major difference between dealing with the business world and dealing with the government world is the sense of time warp. While i like the Rocky Horror version, dealing with the business world sense of time is that things have to happen yesterday to compete. If you have the newest latest greatest way to slice bread, it has to be howdt there on cable commercials slicing and dicing to make enough sales to support the cost of production and the business of marketing and the added expense of taxes for permission to run the business. More dollars can be made off tax-breaks than sales - so lobbying becomes a priority expenditure.

School world, a subset of government world that i am somewhat familiar with, has a completely different prioritization of time. The pace is frantic, there is always something that has to get done before the priorities can be addressed, so that nothing is ever prioritized and addressed. It is dealt with as it comes and if it comes before time is ready, we deal, do the best we can and life goes on. Urgency is given to the most important priority of the moment - and following the bell schedule and sequence of rules is more important than arriving at the timely answer. Eventually, the answer may come, or it may not, but life goes on.

My modest proposal to correct this imbalance is to tinker with the broken problem - government. This congress has never met an allocation they didn't adore and this administration has not vetoed a single bill. Regulation parades as law. The department of education, for instance, is a superfluous uneccessary boondoggling waste of taxpayer money, yet given control of all three branches of government, the republicans cannot find a means to eliminate it.

Time has come to restrict members of the BAR association to the judicial branch of governmint. If no attorney or purveyor of law technically was allowed to partipate representitively in how to use the law - we would get simple law that people would understand that would be easy to follow. It would be the same argument in my field, science, to never allow the scientists into the process of how to use the science - we serve a gate-keeper role to ensure that the decision makers have access to the best science available. But scientists can recuse themselves from science policy discussion, whereas lawyers cannot recuse themselves from government.

If the sys-ops just made sure their systems worked and stayed away from policy, then govt. could supply a support system and be in a coordinative/cooperative role, rather than a consumptive user and tax oppressor role.