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Subject: Re: Passports - Enough Already Posted on: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:29:41 -0400



Rosalie B. wrote:

> Neal Eckhardt wrote:
>
>
>>You are making the government sound like a company that is trying to
>>keep employees busy and not have to lay people off. Unfortunately the
>>government does not care about either of these things.
>>
>
> The problem with the government dealing with additional applications
> is not with the people doing the work. The problem is that the rules
> are set by people who do not have an responsibility to see that they
> are implemented in an appropriate manner. The office that IS
> responsible can't just go out and hire people on a temporary basis -
> even if they are contract workers. They all have to be security
> checked etc and it isn't a short or fast process. Plus the hiring of
> additional workers has to be authorized and accounted for in the
> budget. Guess who has control of the budget?

For the current problem mostly congress critters we have already moved
to the back burner.