Comment by tomaytotomato
11 hours ago
The ferry fiasco (which I am impacted by), is the classic case of government overreach and too much bureaucracy.
In a war or pre-war scenario the fat would be trimmed and we would be come lean and mean, as there is no room for major failures.
> we would be come lean and mean, as there is no room for major failures
This is magical thinking. The bureaucracy doesn’t get more efficient for no reason. Usually it involves something like war time powers, and that means the rest of the economy gets strangled to support the building of weapons.