Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I saw a news program on Brazil's bureaucracy a few years back. People would actually have to prove they were not deceased and not married to get welfare benefits! The program stated that an incoming President cut out a lot of this nonsense by ordering that the bureaucracy was not to presume people are lying unless there is evidence to that effect. Tom > You win that one! Mindless bureaucrats!!! > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > > Making the taxpayer prove a negative (no pun intended) seems to be an > > ingrained habit of mindless bureaucrats. > > Oliver Bryk > > > Before I can get married in spain, I have to prove that I am single... > > Julian