>>"In this lies the bigger problem. Of course any organization is going to say it needs more people and money....On the flip side, do regulators really know how the job works and what it entails. The chain saw approach as you say is extreme, but it cuts right down to the root and shows you what is needed and not needed. But how long does this take for someone to recognize before they turn on the funding tap again....its all a sliipery slope. For no one here truly understand what is going on behind all the close doors..."
Exactly. The bureaucrats had years to apply the scalpel approach but didn't, so they now have to deal with the externally applied chain saw.
There's an old joke that gets to the heart of many of the things being done, as witnessed by the staff and spending cuts, and even the approach on tariffs to balance trade deficits, and efforts to get Europeans to spend more on their own defense.
The joke goes:
A farmer had a well-trained mule that he said immediately followed every command he told it to do. A skeptical reporter asked him to tell the mule to lie down. The farmer picked up a two by four, whacked the mule on the head with it, and told the mule to lie down. The mule then lay down.
The reporter was aghast! "If the mule is so well trained to listen, why did you hit it with the two by four?" he asked the farmer.
The farmer replied, "He does listen, but first you have to get its attention."
