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Complications Proliferate

Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 5 months ago to Government
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Let us say that Senator verybright comes up with a new idea for a law.but other senators want to get their name on it as well So, they add complications and procedures to it and for every additional complication more workers are needed in order to oversee that particular addition. So, what started out as a simple straight forward idea, has become a complex, cumbersom lawspeak jumble. We have all seen this happen many times, it is called "The Peter Principle" an idea that started as a joke, but turned out to be a useful tool in sorting through the rules and regulations attatched to most significant documents. "Work tends to expand in order to fill the space available for it." It illustrates why some perfectly good ideas never get implemented, it makes a simple concept look more grandeloquent. Load it up with lots of rules and procedures and it may look more impressive. But just like asmall open wound, once it becomes infected it can turn into a deadly thing with the possibility of killing the host. Too much bacteria.That is why a law, 200 pages long could be, and should be less than 50 pages long.


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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are only the 2nd person to remember the great professor. Dan, you gotta be my brother from another mother.Prof. Corey gifted me that I would inherit that title upon him achieving room temperature. A very funny yet, deep man.
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  • Posted by ewv 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not humanity, but the destructive ideas of collectivism and those that follow them. The American sense of life wasn't enough to stop the power of explicitly stated contrary ideas of altruism and collectivism. The "system" was the result.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Even a system devised to be precisely the opposite of what you describe, has devolved into what you aptly describe falls into that same pattern. The fault is not the system, it is humanity.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    According to the secret rules of politics, nothing in politics should be fun. If what you do, doesn't cause someone grief, you're not doing your job.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In my thinking, "A day at the beach" stands for a pleasant event -- something to look forward to. But I get your intent.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When you think about it, it is weird that laws are created to benefit of everyone except those who they are supposed to benefit. It the idea is a good one, it is turned into a negative by the addition of complications which turn the intent upside down.
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  • Posted by NilsAndersso 7 years, 4 months ago
    The "work expands to ..." is at least as old as Parkinson (the one with the law). Very smart fellow.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Very scary actually. I have had a very strong emotional dislike of Hillary for many years despite the smiling facade she put on. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall at her election headquarters on election night to see the real Hillary come out !
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  • Posted by ewv 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Read Hilary's fawning college senior thesis on Alinsky. Her only criticism was that he didn't extend his methods to national politics from local agitation, they became friends, and he offered her an activist training job when she graduated. She went to Yale Law School instead (extending his methods to national politics).
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I found that slogan very alarming and truly indicative of the true intentions of the Hillary supporters that I put them in the enemy category if they voted FOR her
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  • Posted by ewv 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But worse than a street gang: the chanting of New Left political radicals taking over a building at a college in the 1960s, which is where she got it.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I do think that the acceptance of collectivist principles allows the evil dictators to be in power. During the last election I was struck by the slogan of Hillary-“stronger together”. Sounded like the slogan of a street gang recruiting members. The more Hillary got away with things, the more attractive she was to her followers. Pretty disgusting
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Imagine how a few allegations can destroy all that effort ! Goes to show the folly of politics and the whole idea of basing ohe’s Existence on popularity
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  • Posted by ewv 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That is not the purpose of dictatorial collectivism in the name of which they operate and which is increasingly accepted. Without the collectivist premises the corrupt tyrants would not be able to get away with it in a nation with the original American individualist sense of life. No matter how corrupt in their own looting, the politicians believe the ideological collectivism themselves as justification for their actions. The socialist Stalins and Hitlers of the world did the same thing. It distinguished them from the earlier "divine right of kings", feudalism, and mercantilism.
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  • Posted by ewv 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But it's more fun to dictate in advance what people must do. Still plenty of room for whim, with people cowering over all of it.
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  • Posted by ewv 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Keep working on it. Maybe you can take care of the climate hysterics, too.
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  • Posted by ewv 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It that is a "day at the beach", can we arrange for a tsunami to take care of it instead of the one they impose on us?
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Making easy things look complicated makes the job seem work intensive. How many times have you heard politicians claim that they have been working hard on a problem, whereas the truth is, compared to the work the average Joe does the work of pols is a day at the beach. Not to mention most of the actual "work" is done by the employees.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Its motives are money and http://power.In..... upon getting elected, the first thing to do is to get started working toward re-election.Nothing else is important but getting out the votes. Once established in office, the next thing is to gather power. Once in a position of power, garnering wealth is relatively easy.Once all that is accomplished, then and only then can the politician turn his/her energies toward performing the business of government.
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