If you put the government in charge of the desert within a month we will be out of sand.
Sparky, it's really sad that you pretty much nail it. I could write a book on government bureaucracy screw-ups - and that would be just on my own experience, in the last year or two. Imagine if we all combine stories!
OK, #1: I recently messaged USPS asking what labels I'd need to ship LiPo batteries, and what shipping methods could be used. I got a reply thanking me for asking about Flat Rate Priority mail.
OK, #2: My son - who will be 18 in a few weeks - finally got his Drivers License! He applied for and received an instruction permit 2 years ago. Cost was
$34.00. We scheduled the driving exam last summer and were told (a) his permit was invalid because he hadn't submitted a driving log, and (b) the application fee was refunded. Therefore he hadn't been driving on an instruction permit for 6 months prior to the behind-the-wheel test as required.
Basic facts: (a) The instruction permit doesn't require a driving log; obviously it would be illegal for him to drive without the permit, and (b) we never received the refund. Oh, but just a few weeks ago we received a form letter asking if we had received the
$5.25 refund.
This is what happens when brainless governors appoint campaign staffers and such to highly-paid positions managing complex projects. Minnesota taxpayers shelled out
well over 100 million dollars to produce a system that ... had to be abandoned. Five or six years of a mess, and a new team starts over.
Our Health & Human Services has also cost taxpayers
well over 100 million dollars in the last few years by their failure to maintain even a basic, functioning system. Managers coming and going on an apparent revolving wheel, with NO explanation from our pinhead governor.
Yup, government is surely the solution!
Dennis