Yeah, the bureaucrats answer to everything is "More regulations" and "Tax it!" [Linked Image]

Even when faced with a project to reduce red-tape and expense, what's the first thing they do? Yep -- Set up a new department with a stuff of 5000 civil servants and a budget of £10m per year to "investigate the problem." [Linked Image]

Did you ever get the British TV show Yes Minister down under? Excellent comedy, and probably closer to the truth than many would like to admit.

Haven't we all run into a bureaucrat who actually talks like this?
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"The fact that the Prime Minister needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know was known, and therefore those of us who needed to advise and inform felt that the information that we needed as to whether or not to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known, and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not yet known, or needed."




[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 06-28-2003).]