When Bill Clinton came to Washington as president, his Democratic administration used corporate know-how and the new internet to streamline the federal bureaucracy as part of the “Reinventing Government” push.
That’s actually the point of the article. Just a bad headline from the editor.
But the Reinventing Government project was nearly the opposite of the abrupt, chaotic Musk effort, say those who ran it or watched it unfold. It was authorized by bipartisan congressional legislation, worked slowly over several years to identify inefficiencies and involved federal workers in re-envisioning their jobs.
“There was a tremendous effort put into understanding what should happen and what should change,” said Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service, which seeks to improve the federal workforce. “What is happening now is actually taking us backwards.”
Those familiar with the Clinton-era Reinventing Government push say it holds lessons for both how to remake the federal bureaucracy and the comparatively meager savings that can be achieved from such an effort.
“We did it without a constitutional crisis,” said Elaine Kamarck, who ran Reinventing Government as a senior Gore adviser in the 1990s. “Unlike these people, we didn’t think there were vast trillions in efficiencies. … Their mandate is only to cut. Our was: Works better, costs less.”
“It requires speaking out. It requires saying, ‘That violates the law, that violates the authorities of the executive,’” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.
Ok, but did Clinton do this in the dumbest fucking way possible?
That’s the difference.
That’s actually the point of the article. Just a bad headline from the editor.
Yeah, there’s a difference between reform and sabotage.
I like how Musk is doing it.
Then why did you post this?
because it’s a news article and this is a new community
Are you actually serious? You like the utter chaos that’s happening, the loss of institutional knowledge? The harm that this is causing people?
Troll or moron based on the username.
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Weird modding choices here, the community is trying to govern itself and we’re being automodded to hell.
.world is a joke
Paid to post AP News articles on Lemmy?!
what other dumb ass would waste the time making your account name to join lemmy
so yes troll or paid shitter
What do you mean?
Paid to post AP News articles on Lemmy? How much do you think that would pay?! lol
Or just someone who has a different opinion than you.
Nah, this kind of chaos at a government level is objectively bad.
have you heard of bone smashing?
its a “looks maxing” idea where you can literally hammer your face into a different shape.
Great idea or just DiFfErEnCe Of OpiNiOn?
I don’t know what you are talking about
yeah, im not surprised.
ok
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The dumbest most chaotic way possible?
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Yah, that’s my read too. There’s been several of these oddly polite users posting heinous articles and responding in childlike ways.
Huh, the mod removed my LLM check. Wonder why that happened.
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