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.

Barack Obama has the wrong catchphrase.

And be proud of it?

A car dealer makes a mint from Obama's gaffes.

Any financial adviser will tell you to keep two months' salary in the bank in case of an unforeseen disaster. Shouldn't the country?

They were "only following orders"...

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