[Cross-posted from European Tribune – where dissent is NOT troll rated!]
The destruction of America as we have known it … or setting forth on the path of the Reagan era. Why close the border, to protect Mexico from the influence of Trumistas? The Gringos modeling after a South American nation …
Delivering Government Solution in the 21th Century
When America’s Founders wrote the Constitution, they laid out a clear vision for the United States Government: to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty. Moreover, they established Executive Branch organizations and structures to deliver on the Federal mission in ways appropriate to America’s needs at the time. Over successive generations, our Federal Government has evolved by expanding in scope and complexity to try to meet Americans’ needs. However, the organizational structures that underpin the Executive Branch have not always kept pace.
Two decades into the 21st Century, the public still believes that the Federal Government serves critical roles, and in some areas performs them well. However, public trust in the Federal Government has declined over the last decade, calling into question how well the current organizational constructs of Government are aligned to meet Americans’ needs in the digital age.
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Government in the 21st Century is fundamentally a services business, and modern information technology should be at the heart of the U.S. Government service delivery model. And yet, today’s Executive Branch is still aligned to the stove-piped organizational constructs of the 20th Century, which in many cases have grown inefficient and out-of-date. Consequently, the public and our workforce are frustrated with Government’s ability to deliver its mission in an effective, efficient, and secure way.
At times of great change, the need to reinforce this common commitment to “government of th people, by the people, and for the people” has been critical. So it is not surprising, as the United States faces the challenges of serving the broad and diverse needs of our growing country, that it becomes important to reexamine the organizational alignment of Executive Branch Government institutions to ensure that our organizational constructs are well aligned to meet the needs of the 21st Century.
To that end, Executive Order (EO) 13781, entitled “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch,” highlights the need to evaluate the organizational constructs that support today’s mission delivery objectives. Building on a history of bipartisan Government reform initiatives, the EO focuses specifically on the role of organizational alignment in reducing “duplication and redundancy,” and improving “efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the executive branch.”
Under the Plan, the govt sells off the US Postal Service, FAA, eliminates more than a 1/3rd of the US Public Health Corps, restructures all foreign aid & development programs, and places every single domestic program for poor families & children under a single welfare authority.
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 22, 2018
○ Executive Order Enhancing the Effectiveness of Agency Chief Information Officers
○ South American nations suspend membership of anti-US bloc
Related reading …
○ ‘It’s life and death’: border crossings continue despite the Trump effect
○ Across Mexico: Chasing an impossible dream
○ In Trek North, First Lure Is Mexico’s Other Line | The New York Times – April 2013 |
