A lesson in government

My job is to advise the county Planning Commission, which is constantly reviewing and amending the county's Zoning Ordinance and General Plan. One of the things I've learned is that such bodies don't so much plan and innovate as borrow forms from other counties and cities. And they are afraid of being questioned, so they steer away from changes that are needed because they can't articulate what the change should actually be. So you get inertia.

The same principle applies in government agencies that we expect to be creative, imaginative and adaptive, like NASA, the CIA and the FBI, showing once again why freedom is so productive, and why bureaucracies aren't.