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!

And be proud of it?

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

They were "only following orders"...

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

The NSF was chartered to fund basic scientific research, it was not chartered to extend affirmative action to the sciences.

CPS is another bureaucracy which has lost sight of its product and is caught up in process.

If you aren't quite sure just what you want, they can't really help.