Another Friday to mark the end of the standard work week. A new financial year for some, so bean counting and reporting back to the government is consuming some people's lives. It is very important to provide the government with a complete picture of all your financial affairs so they can decide if they will give or take a little more tax in payment for services they wish to rend and render.
Over where I live, the Council has decided the easiest way to count the drops of water that fall from the sky is to install water meters in every house. At the bargain price of only $7M up front and project blowouts in arrears (all charged back to us), we can help the Council figure out if they can charge even more money. They dress this up as "water saving measures" and "making things fair" and I'm sure soon it will be natural to pay the library only according to the number of words you actually read of a book (after the base lending fee). Very democratic.
It's things like this that remind me bureaucracy is inevitable, and no matter who we vote for later in the year, the bureaucracy will grow. Oh sure, government departments are currently slashing staff, but has anyone looked at the money they then spend on outsourcing services? Colour me cynical, but I have a fweeling (it's a feeling with extra hand waving) that on the big money go round of money going around, the bureaucracy is cleverly hidden behind mountains of paperwork.
Roll on open government, and feel free to drop in and talk about things completely different. The above musings are NOT FNFFA fare. Give me a bad pun any day.
Over where I live, the Council has decided the easiest way to count the drops of water that fall from the sky is to install water meters in every house. At the bargain price of only $7M up front and project blowouts in arrears (all charged back to us), we can help the Council figure out if they can charge even more money. They dress this up as "water saving measures" and "making things fair" and I'm sure soon it will be natural to pay the library only according to the number of words you actually read of a book (after the base lending fee). Very democratic.
It's things like this that remind me bureaucracy is inevitable, and no matter who we vote for later in the year, the bureaucracy will grow. Oh sure, government departments are currently slashing staff, but has anyone looked at the money they then spend on outsourcing services? Colour me cynical, but I have a fweeling (it's a feeling with extra hand waving) that on the big money go round of money going around, the bureaucracy is cleverly hidden behind mountains of paperwork.
Roll on open government, and feel free to drop in and talk about things completely different. The above musings are NOT FNFFA fare. Give me a bad pun any day.