The problem with this program is its premise that the state's central bureaucracy should control all facilities construction.

We favor state control over federal bureaucracy. The needs in Mississippi are vastly different than the needs in California.

not wasted on government bureaucracy or frivolous projects.

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

We had the smoke in our kitchen under control by 5:10 this morning and guests were back in their rooms by 5:30 a.m., but it was a call-in topic on local radio as recently as an hour ago. My staff and I are just scratching our heads.

They've worked their buns off, ... What wasn't noticed in all this was the preplanning we did kept a lot of the flooding down. We spent three days before the hurricane made landfall going through all the ditches in town, pulling out shopping carts, basketballs, leaves and trash. That helped a lot.