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Everyone plays his part in this subculture of self-interested government. Public employees justify their own importance by being sticklers for the rules, often at a cost to society. Their union leaders make backroom deals that make government unmanageable and, in some states, insolvent. Lobbyists don’t even pretend to be anything other than self-interested. Just give them some money.
Government is incredibly cheap to influence, especially when all you want is to block action. Political media takes all this at face value because political theater is entertaining.

Philip K. Howard
The Rule of Nobody



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