>It’s important to emphasize why this matters. All too often, politicians say they want an efficient, effective government but do the opposite... Andrew Cuomo l

>It’s important to emphasize why this matters. All too often, politicians say they want an efficient, effective government but do the opposite... Andrew Cuomo launched a “transformation plan” created by a consulting firm to “simplify a complex and inefficient organization,” the MTA (still) says on its website. The most noteworthy “accomplishment” was hiring six-figure executives who promptly left with golden parachutes; once Cuomo was gone the transformation team was shut down." This article strikes me because it basically describes the corporatization of large infrastructure projects. Instead of putting an engineer at the head of a transit project, they place a upper crust manager type who is actually wildly incompetent. I feel like this goes along with the general theory that the US can no longer practically perform a lot of it's duties as a state due to the endless privatization of essential industries