Found posted at Inside Cover of NewsMax (Hey, I'm not making this stuff up!) The Clinton Administration, for all its foibles, may have actually accomplished something in the field of "re-inventing government", according to a new book by Paul C. Light of the Brookings Institute entitled The True Size of Government. The Clinton/Gore team promised to downsize government in the inimitable style of Corporate America, and they seem to have done a grand job. While cutting a record 350,000 civil service jobs, they further "streamlined" government by adding 16 new administrative layers; as many as were created by the previous seven administrations combined. As a public service, we are going to clarify a few of these vital job titles for you. First among the new positions is the Deputy Associate Deputy Secretary, who should not be confused with the Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary, or the Assistant Deputy Assistant Secretary, both of whom report to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and not the Deputy Associate Assistant Secretary, as some mistakenly believe. The post of Associate Assistant Administrator has been lost; but that role has been ably filled by the Deputy Associate Deputy Administrator, not to be confused with the Associate Deputy Assistant Administrator, or for that matter, the Assistant Deputy Administrator, who, as you will remember, works under the Associate Deputy Administrator. We hope this has now enlightened those of you who were in the dark. And, in case you were considering applying for the job (and we know you were), there is no longer an Assistant Administrator Adjutant Deputy Associate Administrative Aide to the Deputy Associate Administrator. We here at Inside Cover are speculating that this job still exists, but that it was sadly truncated by a non-conforming, 'mission-critical' computer in a bizarre Y2K accident. (We can only shudder to think what happened to the actual human being, if there was one, who occupied this essential civil post). (http://www.brook.edu)