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supplanted by a superior product, such as
was the case with typewriters by comput-
ers, the business of the inferior product
becomes unprofi table and quickly ceases
to exist. Resources are freed from unpro-
ductive uses and become available for
more valuable pursuits.
Grapevines, roses, fruit trees, and
other plants need pruning on a continual
basis to be healthy and to bear abundant
fruit. Similarly, the government needs to
trim off ineffective parts of its body so as
not to develop into a cumbersome, burdensome,
useless social entity. How might
this be accomplished? One possibility is
that anytime there is a legislative establishment
of a new body, agency, or government
commission for some purpose,
that at the very same time legislation is
enacted that the newly created body,
agency, or
commis-
I NTEGRATED PLANNING
sion will be automatically discontinued or
cease to exist in a specifi ed number of
years, unless it is proven at a reasonable
time prior to its anticipated dissolution,
to still be important. In other words, all
agencies, commissions, and bureaus, of
the government should be considered as
temporary, and there should be a general
felt consciousness by the public and by
government employees of their temporary
nature. Everyone, most especially
those working in the agencies, must have
an understanding that agencies are for
public service and will only continue to
exist as long as they have a worthwhile
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