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Mario Goveia <[email protected]> wrote:
> If communism was so successful in eliminating poverty, more countries
> would be adopting it, rather than relegating it to the thrash heap of
> history, where it really belongs, after all the untold misery it has
> caused already.
>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:53:26 -0500
From: "Roland Francis" <[email protected]>
By this logic, if an honest bureaucrat in India were so honest that
things improve, more bureaucrats would be emulating him, rather than
pressuring his superiors to transfer him to the trash heap of remote
postings where his example would not matter.
Mario responds:
Whereas my observation has a foundation in actual recent history, the problem
with your comment is with its premise.
An honest bureaucrat is virtually an oxymoron. Since you haven't noticed,
amazingly after having lived in India and Canada, nothing improves under a
bureaucracy, because that would make the bureaucrat obsolete. A bureaucrat's
career advancement comes from making the problem bigger, or at least
maintaining the status quo.
This is one of the reasons that India went mostly sideways for 50 years and was
a contributing factor to the implosion of the old Soviet Union.
Roland wrote:
Ronald Reagan also said: "I've laid down the law, though, to everyone
from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is,
wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
Mario responds:
I think this shows that Reagan was not only honest but had a sense of humor,
both traits I would highly recommend to you.
