BUREAUCRACY GONE CRAZY
The Tea Party’s platform of less tax and less government would go across far better in Europe than it does here. Every time I go to the post office and get stuck in a half hour long queue (looking at ten windows with clerks behind only two of them) and all I want to buy is a couple of bucks worth of stamps to mail a package, I say to myself why is it I can’t get service from any government department when I need it? My experience of government departments in America is they could do with more customer service people, not less. Compare that to Europe and the European Union is so awash with bureaucracy that countries pit themselves against one another to fight over who should get the biggest boost in their domestic budgets
Greece with the help of Goldman Sachs “cooked the books” to gain entry into the European Union. Very early on Brussels discovered their shenanigans but political correctness dictated that it would be better to live with the lying trickery of the Greeks than to throw them out. Today Greece needs $60 billion (a drop in the bucket for America these days) to pay the piper. The Greek government is literally doing nothing about reining in its expenses and expects its E.U. partners to come to the party. By the time Brussels gets around to slapping Greece on the hand they will need another $60 billion to bail them out. The cost of government and the social programs within the European Union makes President Obama look like a miser! The most outrageous fact about the E.U. is millions of people are employed by governments with little oversight and certainly no accountability.
Example of bureaucracy gone crazy; the closing down of airspace in northern Europe, because of a little steam and ash belching from a volcano in Iceland. It seems that Great Britain and Germany were competing for the village idiot of the year award when their bureaucrats unnecessarily disrupted commerce and peoples’ lives by shutting airports across their countries. Although in the last fifty years three jet aircraft have lost power for a short time flying directly over erupting volcanoes, not one aircraft has fallen out of the sky nor has one life been lost. Everyday a near miss is recorded at busy airports around the world because of antiquated air traffic control systems.
To shut half the world down for a week and cause so much chaos when the facts were there was literally no safety issue involved whatsoever, to me demonstrates what a ridiculous world we now live in . The political leaders of Great Britain and Germany in particular are nothing but gutless wimps bowing to bureaucracies they both helped expand, when common sense should have prevailed. The shut down was absolute overkill and those morons responsible should not only be fired but also thrown behind bars for creating so much misery to so many innocent victims. I bet you dollars to donuts, nothing will happen; in fact I suggest the European Commissioners will probably create another layer of bureaucracy based in Italy to monitor the world’s volcanoes.
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