D.C. is not about solving problems.  If we solved problems, there would
be nothing else left to do and we would all have to go out and do
something honest -- like fry hamburgers.  No, D.C. is about keeping jobs,
which we do by /managing/ problems.  There is no higher achievement than
making a problem your own, managing that problem, nurturing that problem
along until you've made it to retirement and hopefully mentored a whole
new generation of young bureaucrats to whom you can bequeath the problem.

		-- Stephen Bury, "The Cobweb"