The 10 Rules of Bureaucracy
Published April 21st, 2009
1. Preserve thyself.
2. It is easier to fix the blame than to fix the problem.
3. A penny saved is an oversight.
4. Information deteriorates upward.
5. The first 90 percent of the task takes 90 percent of the time; the last 10 percent takes the other 90 percent.
6. Experience is what you get just after you need it.
7. For any given large, complex, hard-to-understand, expensive problem, there exists at least one short, simple, easy, cheap wrong answer.
8. Anything that can be changed will be, until time runs out.
9. To err is human; to shrug is civil service.
10. There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.
The Democrats’ plan (as identified by Ronald Reagan)
1) If it moves, tax it.
2) If it keeps moving, regulate it.
3) And if it stops moving, subsidize it.