Yes, I think you make a number of great points there. On that time thought, I think that has to be an essential part. There are timeboxes. Again, in the work we looked at, one thing you can say consistently across the board is that we take a long time to get decisions made, whether it be on the regulatory front or not. That just doesn't work with the speed of the way that the world and business are moving. I think there needs to be some notion of a timebox.
Second, to your point on resource reallocation, I do think that there's an opportunity to rethink where all the people are. One thing I would say, too, is that I also have a huge amount of respect for our public service. I think we have some fantastic people. One of the things that we did not consider at the growth council—you may think this is probably the time to fire us on this one—is that it is kind of odd that we've not thought about reallocating our government resources in any sort of significant way over time.
Most companies—and I'm not saying the world should do things as how companies do them—think about reallocating or shifting their capital and people in the order of 5% to 7% a year. That means you're taking away resources from some places and putting them elsewhere. Businesses don't like doing that either; I've never met a business unit that's volunteered to have less capital and people. But if you think about our distribution of public resources, when's the last time we did that? I may be way off base, and this may be why we haven't looked at it, but there is a notion of how we think about allocation of resources given where economic activity is and so forth.
There's that and there's the other one, and then you're really going to unplug the TV. We've talked a little bit about this. In our federal system, with the levels of government that were talked about before, make no mistake: it costs us. Right? It may be a good thing to do, but I'm just saying that it costs us. It's maybe not how one would design something from scratch. I know I'm going way off on a tangent, but it's something—