Change

As people anticipate the upcoming changes in the way the government operates the question arises as to what group should be doing the investigating. When the 2008 mortgage crisis hit the experts all gathered together with the experts who created the problem to design a plan that would solve the problem. Many on the outside looking in asked the obvious question of why not bail out the home owners instead of the banks. It was not a matter of money because the cost was pretty much the same. That approach was not even considered because it would have been such a foreign concept. Bankers are not going to look at the problem from the perspective of the home owner but only how the bankers see the problem. Looking at today's situation the experts say you should go to the defense department executives and defense contractors to look for ways to make things more efficient because they understand the system. This is why every attempt over the years by things like the Grace Commission under Reagan and the Campaign To Cut Waste under Obama failed. Even while setting up department heads people demand that someone with vast experience be put in charge. Where will you find such a person. Within the department you are trying to change. And thus nothing gets done. A case in point is Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. He looks at the department from the viewpoint of the soldier much like the homeowner in the previous example. Politics aside most of the experts cannot understand such thinking. They would like to make improvements but they are so much a part of the system that they cannot separate themselves from the system.