Brawner: Think Process, Not Just Results

Steve Brawner offers an insightful column through our content partner, the Arkansas News Bureau.

Brawner analyzes Congress and concludes that we’re not getting the results we want from our government because the processes in place – regardless of political party – are not structured for success.

Writes Brawner:

The country’s big problems will not be effectively addressed as long as Americans focus on results – who wins the next election, next year’s federal budget deficit, etc. – instead of on the processes creating those results.

For much of the nation’s history, its political processes have helped produce good results. America’s democratic government has been a major reason the country has enjoyed wide-ranging freedoms, rising levels of prosperity, and world leadership. Other countries have aspired to be like us.

But the processes, either because of design flaws or because of the way they have evolved, have broken down, and now everyone is wondering, “Hey, what happened to the results?”

Brawner draws several conclusions from his essay and this important highlight:

There’s one other moral: It’s not any one person’s or even a lot of people’s fault. If you think America must simply get rid of the temporary occupant of the White House or put a different party in charge of Congress, then you don’t understand the depth of the problem. Whoever wins the next election – that’s merely a result. The country’s processes have been creating bigger government and more debt for a long time. They will continue to do so until they are replaced with better processes.

Read his full take at this link.