Government Is Poor Public Sector Management

Professor Michael Rozeff argues that all sorts of states have problems managing things:

In England, "Almost three-quarters of local authorities lack the know-how to develop effective e-government." The U.S. Office of Management and Budget tells us that it grades 85% of U.S. departments and agencies as having poor financial management. This places them in the same league as the financially-challenged National Health Service of England. A Congressional subcommittee informs us that computer security among government agencies gets a D–grade. The GAO backs up this assessment. Other States like Canada are in the same straits. Chinese municipal web sites are as badly handled as many in the U.S., one would surmise. The U.S. government’s poor management of the huge tracts of land it owns is by now well-known. Closer to the news headlines, we find that red tape prevents North Carolina medical workers, camped in rural Mississippi, from getting the "few additional miles to reach the people they came to help."

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