Thursday, December 4, 2014

Parking gate, letter to the editor 2014

I'm posting some old letters to the editor. This is so I can remember what I wrote, and to keep myself honest.  I'm posting them in the order I wrote them so this goes back a couple of years.

The more things change….

Summer 2014

"Parking gate" Don't waste time and money hunting the culprits instead look for the root of the problem.

It seems "Scamming the City" has become a popular sport. After all, isn't it okay to steal from a City Government which  throws constant derision at the "fat cats" which it emulates so well by foisting absurd demands on people who are powerless to avoid the will of the politically correct and practicality challenged? Have we encouraged, fostered and tacitly approved (through turning a blind eye) a culture of deceit? Are we so preoccupied with making rules we can't seem to enforce them? Has our local Government sunken into the doldrums of "good enough" instead of "good for all"?

A tempting solution was proposed recently by Ricardo Semler (Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace). His policy is to have supervisors reviewed by their subordinates and if the supervisor gets less than  a 70% approval rating they're fired.

We need term limits for bureaucrats.

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