Bureaucracy Blog Debate

Ideally the government should be fully efficient to provide the best service for the people as the bureaucracy is meant to serve the people and it is our government. The bureaucracy provides people with services that they need so if the government is the one to implement those then they need to provide the people with the best service they can.  However, as we know the government is not efficient with pretty much any of its agencies and it does not do a great job all the time.  Realistically, the government should try to be as efficient as it can and keep that in the back of their mind but really they need to make sure that are adequately serving the people.  For the government in order to properly serve us they might not be able to be as efficient as we would like.  However, the main priority is them fulfilling their duties to us.  Saying this it shouldn’t mean that they take forever but they shouldn’t have to rush.  Them rushing would only lead to them not properly serving us and meeting our needs.  Like ally mentioned in her blog post about the 900,000 veterans who are waiting to receive health benefits I see where she thinks the government and our bureaucracy should be efficient to take care of that.  I think that in certain situations the government should rush and prioritize those cases especially for people who served our country. 

              It is true, the way the government is set up causes the bureaucratic pathologies to be inevitable.  For example, the red tape pathology can never be avoided.  The government has to write everything down and file paperwork and have regulations on so many things in order for the government to run properly.  That is necessary for the safety of the people.  So with all of this the efficiency is then affected.   If the government was run like a business it would just become more corrupt.  The government was meant to service the people and businesses only look to help themselves.  This would even further hurt the people.  The power that the government already holds over the people would be taken to a whole new level. However, it can be seen that only certain programs might be able to be run like a business.  The dmv for example might run better as a business because it cannot be corrupted and an outside source might run that system better and quicker.