Justice Hugo L. Black once told me that he thought all government departments and agencies should be abolished every five or ten years. Black was a senator from Alabama for ten years and a Supreme Court justice for thirty-four, and he knew just about everything there was to know about how government works. His startling idea—and I think he was serious—was his way of dealing with the encrustations of bureaucracy. Anthony Lewis.
Sunday, 29 March 2009
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Nice idea. How about also having an annual pay cut, for at least the senior levels, say 20% p.a. so the politicians in charge have to complete the task while they can still recruit staff, and the politicians get flogged to death if the programme fails!
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