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   simpsonfan2 said, 4 months ago

   If discussing Congress, he’s going to need DWFNC.
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   BartJ385 said, 4 months ago

   I don’t get this one.
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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago

   Bureaucracy doesn’t necessarily mean outdated and inefficient … it … just always seems to turn out that way.
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   win said, 4 months ago

   “Willpower subverts passion. Bureaucracy subverts willpower. Idiocy subverts bureaucracy.”
   ― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
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   Saskfan said, 4 months ago

   Well, schools ARE suppposed to prepare you for Real Life™…
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   Josh Lyons said, 4 months ago

   The School Cheating Scandal here in Atlanta is one way of describing bureaucracy.
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   emjaycee said, 4 months ago

   @Josh Lyons

   Interesting – was this a recent event? What year, so I can find out more information, please.
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   Felix The Cat said, 4 months ago

   Thank the Teachers’ Union.
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   Perkycat said, 4 months ago

   @simpsonfan2

   I totally agree. Maybe with a little somethin’ somethin’ in it.
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    TrapperJohn said, 4 months ago

    @Bruno Zeigerts

    Doesn’t necessarily mean? Bureaucracy doesn’t mean ’outdated and inefficient" at all. Adam gave the definition for “bureaucratic”, not “bureaucracy”.
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    Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago

    @TrapperJohn

    Just saying that people seem to automatically make that connection.
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    John Pike said, 4 months ago

    Would someone please define DWFNC?
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    Josh Lyons said, 4 months ago

    @emjaycee

    Two years ago. Just Google “Atlanta School Cheating Scandal” and you’ll know more.
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    Stephen Gilberg said, 4 months ago

    @John Pike

    Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee, something that gets Google hits only on GoComics. The joke needs to be retired, badly.
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    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

    Bureaucracy is a necessary evil.

    Every so often a cleaning is need, though. Particularly when we started getting laws that were more than 100 pages long. The Federal Depository at the college I earned my masters from was an eye-opener. For most of the U.S. history, laws were short. When you needed to, you could look up a law and actually understand it. The proceedings of Congress were usually very short. Until the 1990s.
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    For example, MUSY. Multiple Use Sustained Yield. As a law it was quite short and commonsense. (I miss the 1890s to 1981 era when Republicans were Conservationists and most Democrats weren’t trying to destroy nature through Environmentalism.) A mostly ignored law as swung the Congressional breeze, but it was praiseworthy nonetheless. The idea of using the national forests for a multitude of uses, vs. the cut-it-all-down during Carter and Reagan years, or the burn-it-all-down of today.
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    In 1993, the 103rd Congress and President Clinton did the first 45,000 page law. NAFTA. Others followed.
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    It was just the first. Such laws are completely untenable as no one can know all of them.
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    In effect, bureaucracy took a flying leap in 1993.
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