There is no word count. Does this tend to be a pendulum approach to decision making? We go one way and then the other?

There is no word count. Does this tend to be a pendulum approach to decision making? We go one way and then the other? I have seen this approach. We argue each time that the new way will be a money saving approach. But it is usually not. Why do we do this? It would seem that there is a better approach.