Originally Posted By: FleaFlickr02
Blackmouth:

My point is that if you make an appointment with a medical specialist, arrive 4 hours late, and expect to be seen immediately, you're being unreasonable at best. More likely, you're getting rescheduled two weeks out, and that's in a doctor's office, not a giant (*not suggesting that's ideal) government agency.

We were not late to the appointment/negotiations. And if I am displeased with my medical providers I can seek a different provider that fact gives providers a reason to please, this is an incentive that government funded bureaucracies lack.

Originally Posted By: FleaFlickr02
If you honestly think Puget Sound fishing seasons are NMFS's entire raison d'etre, you might be mistaken. That's another way to say it.

I gave no reason to believe that I thought that NMFS's only function was the control of Puget Sound fishing seasons, in fact I thought that I had made it perfectly clear that I believe that this and most other government agencies are already too large, too powerful and largely held unaccountable to those they are intended to serve.
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