Government programs predestined to fail

( T )hese programs are predestined to fail because they create self-serving and self-protecting bureaucracies that keep them in business.

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each government program creates its own bureaucracy to monitor participation in the program. These bureaucracies … become entrenched administrative entities with needs that supersede the needs of the people for whom the program was designed.

Of course we have known that for years but this guy is the dean of a School of Social Policy and Practice, and he wrote a book about it. So Yay, Vindication, Woo Hoo.  Of course I have never really though of Social Security or Medicare as the models of efficiency that this guy apparently does so I have to wonder where exactly his bureaucratic tolerance point is set to but it’s progress.