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Pete Buttigieg: “We've got bureaucracies that were set up in the 40s and the…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Mike Muse Interviews Pete Buttigieg on America's Future, Leadership & Public Service

Published | Video Starts at 31:08

And this is maybe the biggest example, but it's far from the only example where We've got bureaucracies that were set up in the 40s and the 50s to deal with the problems of the 40s and the 50s. and they did a fairly good job by the kind of standards of the day. (31:08–31:15)

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Asserts that current bureaucracies are outdated, being designed for mid-20th-century problems.

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