Outback Question of the Week—Answer

The answer to last week's question was really based upon how you view things.

My own feeling is that someone who turned around the Registry of Motor Vehicles and then ran into a brick wall with the MBTA may have found himself without the authority commensurate with the job.

Put into English, either the "hacks"♠ or the "unions"♥ have a strangle hold on the operation and nothing short of bankruptcy is going to fix it.

Sad.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  I don't really like the term hack, because it seems to be used to smear hard working civil servants.  On the other hand, there are times it applies.
♥  Don't get me wrong here.  I like unions and think they are an important part our economic system.  My Father was in a picture that appeared in The New York Times in the 1930s, helping to lead a strike at a steel mill in Johnstown, PA.