http://monomoyick.com/2009/03/12/bigger-is-always%e2%80%a6-bigger/ Nec temere, nec timide Mon, 21 May 2012 04:40:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://monomoyick.com/2009/03/12/bigger-is-always%e2%80%a6-bigger/#comment-238 Maia Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:10:04 +0000 http://monomoyick.com/?p=39#comment-238 The town of Vineyard Haven conglomerated all its public services (cemetery, parks, rubbish, etc) into a single Department of Public Works. This has been an unmitigated disaster: misrun, expensive, and ineffective. I think it's because the DPW is too big to be run on a casual, everything-no-matter-how-minor-goes-through-the-head-honcho basis: but they're still trying. Big government requires its own infrastructure, just as the heart needs its own circulatory system: and that infrastructure needs to be built, it can't grow. The town of Vineyard Haven conglomerated all its public services (cemetery, parks, rubbish, etc) into a single Department of Public Works. This has been an unmitigated disaster: misrun, expensive, and ineffective. I think it’s because the DPW is too big to be run on a casual, everything-no-matter-how-minor-goes-through-the-head-honcho basis: but they’re still trying. Big government requires its own infrastructure, just as the heart needs its own circulatory system: and that infrastructure needs to be built, it can’t grow.

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