Let's pause for a moment and reflect upon some of the services provided by our various agencies of the federal government.
There are, of course, the multi-tiered activities of the Internal Revenue Service, which will be responsible for sleepless nights the next few days for millions of American taxpayers. And even after next Tuesday's income-tax-filing deadline, millions of honest people will be sweating bullets, wondering if they made enough sense of the IRS' mish-mash of rules and instructions to avoid an audit.
Then you have the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Homeland Security. On the one hand, Homeland Security requires just short of a strip search for citizens hoping to catch a commercial flight.
