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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 quite right of course. I have just given you a preview of coming attractions as to aging memory. It not only fails you but also becomes inaccurate. Thanks for the unscrambling Parkinson from Peter. Now, what are we going to do about Hillary's Presidency?
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  • Posted by flagg 7 years, 4 months ago
    Regarding the statement "Work tends to expand in order to fill the space available for it.".

    That's actually Parkinson's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkins....

    The Peter principle is a concept in management theory formulated by Laurence J. Peter in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate's performance in their current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and "managers rise to the level of their incompetence." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_p...

    Otherwise, good post.
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  • Posted by chad 7 years, 4 months ago
    Complex and unfathomable creates the seeming need for the bureaucracy and all who work there, that the work is destructive, restricts trade or murders others is unimportant to those who would rule.
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  • Posted by spicevalleyroad 7 years, 4 months ago
    Every bill presented to members of Congress should be a single issue bill. Let the topic stand/fall on its own merits. Bills should be written so that the 'average' high school graduate can understand what's included. Make them simple/easy-to-understand/single topic. Taxpayers need to be able to know what's being considered.
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  • Posted by ewv 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I hadn't noticed that they had discovered the string of letters "nihilist" to use it at all.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Who? Leftists who do not understand the definitions of the words. When you are making up a definition, anything will do.
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  • Posted by ewv 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Who often calls Objectivists "nihilists"? Usually the left denounces "selfishness", deliberately evading its meaning.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I had struggled observing that the leftists seemed to be violent. Now it makes sense
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The opposite of reason is unreason or insanity, which means anything goes which means violence is OK.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You're right. Objectivists are often called nihilists But people who do that are 180 degrees off center.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's the people we pick to be in with. If a man or woman has integrity they wouldn't accept money for nefarious reasons to begin with.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Anyone who can make laugh after a session watching the Fox News Channel, is a super genius.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Did I say Parkinson? Wrong. It's the Peter Principle. Dr. Laurence J. Peter came up with that.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It seems when u abandon reason, all that is left is violence. This describes the leftists pretty well actually
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A tse-tse fly, hopefully.I was told by a reliable source that she flew int a rage and broke stuff Pretty much what you'd expect from an emotionally immature person.
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  • Posted by ewv 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Alinsky's broad influence was primarily from his Rules for Radicals, a nihilistic tract on disruptive tactics followed by the 1960s New Left and which he practiced himself, but which did not contain any coherent statement of goals. He was such an inherent nihilist I doubt he would have repudiated his own writing; he knew what he was doing.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Good old Solly. I often think he had more influence than Lenin.I think he would be the first one to abandon the result of his suggestions. He'd probably run to Tahiti and take up painting.
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  • Posted by 7 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I find it remarkable how pols can dance around in order to justify their support for another pol even when incontrovertable facts prove them to be downright criminal.
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