Do you think US Postal Service deserves a bailout?

Contributor: RonLee RonLee
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Originally posted by married with children
well, I wont get too much into this. But if the government would let the USPS run their own show, like it was set up to do; they would not need a bail out. But as usual, the ruling elite knows best on how to run things; and as far as I can tell it ... more
Married With Children, that advice would apply to nearly every federal agency. I won't say which agency I do IT work for, but just one example is, a directive came down that ALL new development (computer programs) will be done in a specific programming language, whether that language would be the best fit for the subject or not. Way too many of the "ruling elite" want to play with stuff they know absolutely nothing about or worse know just a little about. My observation is that in many areas the cost of a project is easily four times or more what it should be.
If the Brainiacs in Washington would let me and my other professional IT brothers and sisters do what we know how to do, without their micro managing (technically known as fucking things up), we could get way more done for way less cost to the taxpayer.
04/29/2012