{"id":1587,"date":"2012-03-14T10:11:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T10:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2012-03-14T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T10:26:43","slug":"government-bureaucracy-is-keeping-us-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/government-bureaucracy-is-keeping-us-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Government bureaucracy is keeping us down."},"content":{"rendered":"

IMD just sent out promotion for the World Competitiveness Yearbook.\u00a0 The table here was highlighted.\u00a0\u00a0 My beloved Hong Kong, where you can get things done, is at the top, but Ireland, mired in government sloth, is comparable to centrally controlled Mainland China.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has taken initiative will know that much red tape is wasteful and archaic.\u00a0 Many will notice the increasing bureaucracy to protect us from ourselves.\u00a0 Not only do we make government fat, but we also abdicate our responsibility for our own lives.\u00a0 We are too lazy to care what we eat because food has been pre-approved by government – otherwise it wouldn’t be on the super market shelf, right?!\u00a0 But that doesn’t mean that consuming kilos of fat and sugar is right or good.<\/p>\n

It is a telling coincidence that I happened to notice this report on bureaucracy the day after I came across the description of Open Business!<\/p>\n

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IMD just sent out promotion for the World Competitiveness Yearbook.\u00a0 The table here was highlighted.\u00a0\u00a0 My beloved Hong Kong, where you can get things done, is at the top, but Ireland, mired in government sloth, is comparable to centrally controlled Mainland China. Anyone who has taken initiative will know that much red tape is wasteful …
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