Re:minor setbacks and some carmack links :P (Score 1)

Bullcrap. It is obvious that you have not spent one day in management in Government. There is tremendous pressure to reduce expenses. Every year I was in management my budget was cut and my service demains increased. That was a big incentive to be more efficent. Some of the problems (challenges!) in goverment is that many times you are required to provide the same level of services to everyone. You can't cherry pick your customers or scale services to payment like private business. Another challenge is that your mistakes tend to be very public.

I'm working for a Fortune 500 firm now and see many of the same problems that I saw while working for the goverment. The one thing that I have not seen is the dedicate people, not all but most, who were just trying to do the best thing for the public at large.