A lot of government workers want to do a good job. I think in a lot of cases it's intentional underfunding that's causing problems.

I'm not convinced it is under funding. It could also be too many managers and not enough front line staff. Or it could be too many regulations making the process need far more time (time=money).

I don't know, but I lean to too much process.

I watched pretty closely while I was changing from a KY vehicle registration to a CA registration. The staffer was plenty quick, there was just an absolute heap of stuff to do that all seemed pointless. I'm sure each of those little legally-mandated whatsits was well-intentioned, but in aggregate they bedraggle getting anything done. Similar story in zoning / planning. And in both arenas the result is that doing things is slow and expensive. Please, government, spend some tiny modicum of effort on deregulating and streamlining for the sake of not wasting my limited lifespan.

California DMV is so efficient, I’ve never seen a government agency be so fast during Covid.

Because they're not graded? No KPI tracking.

Why wouldn't they have KPI's? It doesn't make sense that government has to equal incompetent: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/about-the-california-departmen...

The military is a government agency and while not perfect in a lot of ways, they aren't incompetent.

The military is very incompetent. It has bases that it neither needs or wants and are just make work projects. But this is the fault of the civilian government.

> There are humans in the seats of government and why wouldn't they want to do a good job?

I can’t tell if this is a joke.