by News Staff | Dec 18, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
BUREAUCRAT BEAT 12-18-07 We hunkered down in the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom last night to study current news and ponder the oddities of life when we came across an account of the recent climate talks in Indonesia. We were mortified to discover that the U.S. delegates to...
by News Staff | Dec 11, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
The Bureaucrat Beat newsroom staff hashed through news reports on the sometimes touchy issue of church and state. You know – political candidates who make it clear that they follow one religion or another and leave citizens with the feeling that if they...
by News Staff | Dec 7, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
Casting about for thought provoking material, the Bureaucrat Beat newsroom staff came across Dale Carnegie’s Golden Book – you know the “How to Win Friends and Influence People” guy? After a careful examination of Carnegie’s principles,...
by News Staff | Dec 4, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
After a chat session at the Bureaucrat Beat card table, we all agreed on the concept of “Hey, wait a minute!” The tipping point. That’s the time for the people to rally against bureaucratic foolishness. We’re way past “Hey, wait a...
by News Staff | Nov 30, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping – the saying goes, and so as the Bureaucrat Beat staff pondered the holiday season the first phenomenon on our list – shopping. We have two tales of buying today. First, did you know that some call the first...
by News Staff | Nov 27, 2007 | Bureaucrat Beat
How does this make you feel? The California State Treasurer, Bill Lockyer, was quoted in a Los Angeles times story on the state budget as saying, “The real problem is tooth-fairy budgeting.” Lockyer should know. He sees the whole state government...
