is the bureaucracy expanding to meet the expanding bureaucracy?

Answer 1

No kidding, Captain Obvious- would you like fries with that? Pull up to the first window and your total is 5 dollars and 76 cents....

Answer 2

Ah - a fellow Civ4 player. It seems to be a natural law of any organisation, whether political or commercial, that bureaucracy always expands to fulfil its own needs and not those who it is supposed to serve. The foremost political example in the last hundred years has to have been the USSR. It can easily be argued that a contemporary example is the National Health Service in the UK where the bureaucrats seem to be so entrenched that, despite reforms intended to make the Service more efficient and cost effective, the bureaucracy has seemingly continued to expand. That despite the best efforts of the employees to deliver a first class service.

Answer 3

All the time-paper makes paper,even though governments tell us they are always looking to stream-line bureaucracy. Civil servents know the bigger their department, the bigger their power and prestige. What with so many quangos being given birth to under this government-all unelected, the paper chase to keep us governed and to keep the government informed with stastics to justify their department continues unabated, because the government can't run the country-they can only pass laws. Bureaucrats need to keep passing paper from one department to another to another to another to another, so that they are all aware of government policies and know which paper to issue,which paper to chase, with triplicate copies of course!

Answer 4

It certainly keeps trying.

We are now being told that we need local Mayors in the UK and Local assemblies as we dont have enough Pigs at the trough already.

Stuff the lot of them.

Answer 5

It is doing just what the dumb voters want it to do. There have always been a few good men who run in every election and get a few votes. We are 9 trillion dollars in debt and the voters want more, more, more. PORK, PORK, WE WANT PORK!

Answer 6

i think we have all gone mad with bureaucracy

Answer 7

Of course ! .....
Ultimate power corrupts power ultimately .....
Therefore there must be continuing expansion in order to meet and maintain those in power, those who support those in power, those who work for those who support those in power and those who work towards working for those who work for those who support those in power .....
Get my drift?!.......