Commentary
We are missing some fundamental realities that threaten American survival.
Our national security systems are obsolete. Our domestic systems are bloated and self-serving. Our bureaucracies are slow, cumbersome, and avoid accountability.
Bureaucratism has replaced professionalism. Process and activity have replaced achievement and success.
Because our systems cannot succeed, they become expert at avoiding responsibility and denying the reality of failure. They self-protect. Between the bureaucracies, ideologies, and lobbyists, it is virtually impossible to seriously challenge the decay and dishonesty which pervades all our key institutions of survival.
Simply shoring up inefficiencies in the budget is putting a Band-Aid on a gaping wound. When systems are broken, dumping more money into them only leads to more expensive failures. The current bureaucratic structures are not up to the task. We’re flooding money into sieves. Money runs in, and money runs out. We are no safer as our opponents begin to push ahead….