There’s a theme here lately, I think…
Its about change and inertia.
I know exactly why I am thinking along these lines because I live in Washington, DC and anytime we have an election, we talk about change and inertia.
Now with the change from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, that’s some serious change.
One of the big fears that many people have around town is that the change to Donald Trump is going to hit especially hard in one area that supports most of the DC economy, the bureaucracy.
I’m of the feeling that you need a strong private and public sector to really drive the economy.
The private sector does a ton of stuff that the public sector isn’t really designed to do and because of this, does them much better.
But the public sector also does a lot of stuff that the private sector might not do efficiently or that are so big that we might not want them to be done by the private sector.
Somewhere in there, I like to hope for the opportunity for the private and public sector to compete on a lot of things to help ensure maximum benefit to society and the taxpayer.
Which brings us back the bureaucracy and the idea of inertia.
One of the big challenges that our government, and many governments in the western world, seem to be facing is the lack of trust and faith in the ability to tackle this inertia.
Inertia has become a big issue due to a legislative branch that has only been on the obfuscation track for 8 years. A bureaucracy that is overwhelmed with procedures meant to protect taxpayer money, but which end up just allowing action to be taken.
Then you factor in the fact that they are a mass, faceless group of people and you have morale.
Oy!
So we will see if inertia is a bit different or if it changes.