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One method would be what Tonganoxie did in the article. Get pissed and keep making noise until the blowback is unmanageable, if that doesn't work vote them all
by rhcom2 9y ago
One method would be what Tonganoxie did in the article. Get pissed and keep making noise until the blowback is unmanageable, if that doesn't work vote them all out.
- macintux 9y agoYou can't vote out the bureaucracy.
- labster 9y agoExpand the bureaucracy by adding a Department of Transparency.
- tonysdg 9y agoHehe reminds me of the computer engineering adage: "The only thing that can't be solved by another layer of indirection is too many layers of indirection."
- whataretensors 9y agoSounds Orwellian. Corrupt systems seldom improve after being fed.
- Spooky23 9y agoNot at all. A big issue with government transparency is that agencies control data and have little incentive to release. Having professional data oversight and built in transparency would build institutional protections against Governors of Mr. Brownback’s ilk.
- labster 9y agoThank you! My club in university was Students for an Orwellian Society. It's good to hear I still have the knack for it.
- vkou 9y agoYou absolutely can vote in politicians who can fire people, until the toxic culture of the bureaucracy is replaced with something else. In this case, though, the bureaucracy exists to protect the politicians.
- mythrwy 9y agoIn theory yes. In practice never seems to happen like that.
- cortesoft 9y agoYou mean "Drain the swamp"? Well, that has worked great so far.
- vkou 9y agoIt works better when your idea of draining the swamp isn't stuffing it with your cronies. Many countries (That are not the United States) have this largely figured out.
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoYou can fire them. Differentiating between a cleaning of house and heartless cutting of services, however, is difficult.
- nikanj 9y agoFiring people protected by government contracts and strong unions is surprisingly hard.
- vkou 9y agoC-level people in those organizations are not protected by strong unions or government contracts. (Although they may come with golden parachutes.) They are also the people who can institute meaningful change.
- MsMowz 9y agoKansas has a tiny government already, I'm not sure there's much left to clean out except the elected positions.
- dmix 9y ago> heartless cutting of services Quite the dichotomy you've established. Cutting of services is automatically 'heartless'? As they are always useful, necessary, and better than alternatives... while cleaning house to replace them with another set of politicians with the same prerogative is the 'good' solution? Context matters. Neither are automatically better solutions, nor is chopping services necessarily 'heartless'.
- ocschwar 9y agoIt's not the bureaucracy. It's the politicos sitting on top of the bureaucracy. The bureaucrats would rather do their jobs and give honest reports about it to the legislature and the public.
- Spooky23 9y agoYou can fire apointeees who run the place. Nobody working in CPS wants to be in a place where child abuse is covered up and ignored. That’s a leadership problem.