A New Governmnet

To whom it may concern,

This administration is reshaping the role of government, and hopefully this will result in a renewed focus on enabling and encouraging local engagement. By empowering individual citizens and grassroots community organizations to change their own neighborhoods, local, state, and federal governments can all begin to effectively work towards a single, common good. As the administration has said, every government program should be judged not by its intent, but by its results. Over time, the government programs have begun to overlap and create redundancies. One program after another has layered so much bureaucracy on every level of government that there needs to be a concerted effort to simplify virtually every aspect of the system. This requires broad consensus, leadership, and effective management. Progress and change should not have to result in an increasingly complex machine. As your administration begins to force a dialogue and rethink almost every aspect of life (economics, transportation, foreign policy, energy, financial structures, etc...), how will the government as an agent of this change be retooled in order to implement your message?

GUNNAR HAND, AICP