Paperwork Reduction: An Oxymoron

Increasing efforts to reduce paper
By changing that which was undone
To be redone by the last reduction
Lessens reduction
Because you must write more
To say what they want
The first time around,
After its reduced.

The more paper undone,
The more to be done
But once done
In the short run
Its easier to be redone
The second time around
In the long run
With cut and paste and
Click, click, click.

I.E. reducing the reduction of a
Decreased diminishment
Results in the overall reduction
Of the reduced reduction
And just the opposite,
Because reduction of a reduction
Is an increase,
Especially when they change
Everything.