![Page 1: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The Bureaucracy
“Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times.”
—George Van Valkenburg
![Page 2: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The ‘Long and Unacceptable’ Wait for a Veterans’ Benefit
By Susan SeligerThe New York Times, May 15, 2013
![Page 3: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
“…each man felt, as he tightened his saber belt, that he was summoned to ride to death.”
— Capt. Henry C. Parsons, 1st Vermont
Cavalry
Farnsworth’s Charge
Brigadier General Elon J. Farnsworth
![Page 4: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Lt. Perley C.J. Cheney1st Vermont Cavalry
Gettysburg
July 3,18635:27 PM
![Page 5: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
“The bullet struck in the small of my back, one and one-half inches from the spine above the hip, below the ribs and came into my watch fob pocket, putting in an hole ten inches through my body, that took six months to heal.”
![Page 6: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
1888
![Page 7: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
$15 per month…
The equivalent of about $350 today.
1908
![Page 8: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
1888
![Page 9: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
1912
![Page 10: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
![Page 11: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Perley C.J. Cheney
![Page 12: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
![Page 13: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
![Page 14: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Types of Bureaucratic Agencies
Cabinet departmentsRegulatory commissionsGovernment corporationsIndependent executive agencies Foundations
![Page 15: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
The Department of Homeland Security
![Page 16: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Problems of Public Administration
Democratic participation Constitutional limitation
![Page 17: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Bureaucratic PathologiesNew Hampshire’s dirt-eating childrenMother Theresa’s quest to build a homeless shelter in New York City9/11 loans administered through the Small Business Administration (SBA)Unused mobile homes following Hurricane Katrina
![Page 18: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Bush Campaign Ad on Gore’s
Prescription Drug Plan
Do bureaucrats deserve our wrath?
As Lynch points out, they are not all “indifferent paper pushers.” They are police officers, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and engineers.
![Page 19: The Bureaucracy Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times. George Van Valkenburg](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062312/5518ceae550346881f8b5c10/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Fixing Bureaucracy
Under the Clinton Administration in the 1990s, The National Partnership for Reinventing Government sought to make government “work better” and “cost less” for its customers, the American people.