Transcript The Bureaucracy “Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times.” —George Van Valkenburg The ‘Long and Unacceptable’ Wait for a Veterans’ Benefit By Susan Seliger The.

The Bureaucracy
“Man creates problems. Government
and bureaucrats magnify them 100
times.”
—George Van Valkenburg
The ‘Long and Unacceptable’ Wait for a
Veterans’ Benefit
By Susan Seliger
The New York Times, May 15, 2013
Farnsworth’s Charge
“…each man felt, as
he tightened his
saber belt, that he
was summoned to
ride to death.”
— Capt. Henry C. Parsons,
1st Vermont Cavalry
Brigadier General
Elon J. Farnsworth
Gettysburg
July 3,1863
Lt. Perley C.J. Cheney
1st Vermont Cavalry
5:27 PM
“The bullet struck in
the small of my back,
one and one-half
inches from the spine
above the hip, below
the ribs and came
into my watch fob
pocket, putting in an
hole ten inches
through my body,
that took six months
to heal.”
1888
$15 per month…
The equivalent of
about $350 today.
1908
1888
1912
Perley C.J. Cheney
Types of Bureaucratic Agencies
Cabinet departments
Regulatory commissions
Government corporations
Independent executive agencies
Foundations
The Department of Homeland Security
Problems of Public Administration
Democratic participation
Constitutional limitation
Bureaucratic Pathologies
New Hampshire’s dirteating children
Mother Theresa’s quest
to build a homeless
shelter in New York City
9/11 loans administered
through the Small
Business Administration
(SBA)
Unused mobile homes
following Hurricane
Katrina
Bush Campaign Ad
on Gore’s
Prescription Drug
Plan
Do bureaucrats deserve our
wrath?
As Lynch points out, they are not
all “indifferent paper pushers.”
They are police officers,
firefighters, nurses, teachers, and
engineers.
Fixing Bureaucracy
Under the Clinton Administration in the 1990s, The
National Partnership for Reinventing Government
sought to make government “work better” and “cost
less” for its customers, the American people.