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Ending Bureaucracy

I just found some guy's blog about destroying bureaucracy, and evidently he's too young and foolish to know what bureaucracy's about. I straightened him out.

For the rest of you, bureaucracy is a system of requirements for limiting enrollment, audit-passing, and legal ass-covering. If you are lucky enough to fit stated requirements, it shows itself in forms, which require other forms, which require some sort of processing and/or filing, which require still more forms to prove the previous forms have been received, data entered, filed, and cataloged, and generate forms to inform of acceptance or rejection of the the thing applied for in the first place, because the forms (or you) either complied with or didn't meet requirements.

Paper trails are necessary for eventual audits, and passing said audits with flying colors the FIRST time (always preferred), because it says your documents and document collection will stand the legal test of scrutiny. Someday, someone will try to sue, and this paper trail is like a stone bucket of evidence either FOR or AGAINST them.

Next time you fill out a form for anything, think of it as evidence that can be used against you in a court of law.

Would you like to stop this system cold in its tracks? Don't ever fill out a form---it could become evidence against you. No form, no request for something with a lot of strings attached, no follow-on paperwork, no audit down the road, and in the end, no legal ass-covering necessary. Not only would a lot of paper-pushers be out of a job, but so would a lot of rule-makers, paper manufacturers, form designers and printers, and lawyers.

ADDENDUM: On second thought, we NEED bureaucracy--otherwise, unemployed lawyers would become politicians or TV pundits in search of their next pay checks. We already have enough of those around!

Posted by Cute at 7:48 PM

Labels: politics