If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Do we really want to pay $3.5 Billion to change all the vending machines in the US, so they accept new bills that blind people can tell apart?

No clue what went wrong - quick, let's make new rules so it doesn't happen again!

Our bureaucrats are not morons; quite the contrary.

We've all wished someone dead at one time or another.

And be proud of it?

It's shockingly simple...

They were "only following orders"...

So near and yet so far!

When the paper is not to their liking, bureaucracies tend to have hissy-fits and throw their weight around.