"Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."

Yogi Berra

Daedalus's top executives had arrived at the conclusion that they would have to maintain much greater personal control over future undertakings. This perspective was even more strongly embraced by the government's senior officials. Furthermore, this latter group had concluded that by bringing more tasks into the government for execution as well as direction it would be possible to streamline lines of authority. It would also be possible to eliminate unnecessary costs which had been incurred previously in such tasks as establishing competitive sources and evaluating proposals. Furthermore, there would be major savings achievable by no longer having to pour money into unproductive areas such as profits.

The percentage of civilian workers in the United States employed by government at the federal, state, and local levels is displayed in Figure 66. A growth trend is observed which has been very predictable and monotonic throughout the history of the nation. A modest extrapolation into the future, shown by the dotted portion of the trend line, indicates that the time is not too distant when one can expect 100 percent of the working population, and perhaps even some who are not, to be employed by the government. Taking the next logical step, one can state the Law of Instinctive Herding:

Figure 66: The fraction of the nation's work force which is employed by government at all levels increased on a steady course but has been reined in; however one robin does not make a...