"the federal government must invest but reform. The federal government largely remains a legacy government rooted in a different era. Existing federal agencies and programs are siloed and stove-piped in their structure and prescriptive and technocratic in their approach. The proliferation of redundant federal programs is particularly alarming.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83995_Page2.html#ixzz2ChTGlcv7Meanwhile somewhere I read a piece giving advice to all the new appointees to be in the executive branch. One warning was: don't reorganize, it will sop up all your time and energy so you can't do anything else.
Having seen what has happened to Secretary Madigan's (and Espy and Glickman) effort to reorganize USDA I can only agree with the advice piece. I remember telling Blake McGaughey, Mike Campbell, and some of their PA's there was a chance that Madigan's effort would bear fruit (this was in Ft Collins during the fall of 1991): maybe 50-50 odds. I should have warned them I always had vision problems.
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