Theft at the Public Till
always there, like the building partitions, which may be moved around but are always present, as well as the pipes, ducts, and the other components of the air-conditioning and plumbing systems. With a government policy or program the dead load equivalent. is the bureaucracy which is established to administer the program and the para- sitic service culture which will spring up to use, access, and influence that bureaucracy. If the government program does not have adequate resources to deal with its own internal population and this external parasitic culture it cannot, in the long run, be expected to withstand the outside pressures of achieving its goal. The building exists for some function not just to stand like a memorial for all time. Similarly, the governmental program has a goal and a purpose -- not just to create jobs for its bureaucrats and parasites. Just as with a building, the dead load I’m describing cannot be computed until the program is up and running. But - and this is a critical but - unlike a building, with a governmental program once the dead load factors become more apparent resources can be fairly easily adjusted. In architecture this observation occurs but it only affects the next building except in the case of crisis. This seems to be even more generous than how our government presently functions (is anyone making the observation after the fact?), but the possibility of change remains, nonetheless. The gravity loads the structure must support in addition to its own dead load are called live loads and include the weight of the furniture, people, goods, fixtures, snow, etc. Since live loads vary greatly from one building to another and since they may change from day to day, even hour to hour, the evaluation of all their possible combinations, while perhaps feasible, would be enormously time-consuming and uncertain. To avoid these difficulties, live loads are mandated -prescribed-for the structural engineer by building codes issued by the building departments of countries, states, counties, and cities. These codes list the mandatory minimum live loads for each type of building and each kind of load. Live loads in government programs are the goals. But while buildings are designed to handle live loads -- with governmental programs the power of naming seems to be invoked. If the Congress or a rule maker can describe
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