Do we really want to pay $3.5 Billion to change all the vending machines in the US, so they accept new bills that blind people can tell apart?

No clue what went wrong - quick, let's make new rules so it doesn't happen again!

Our bureaucrats are not morons; quite the contrary.

And be proud of it?

It's simply common sense that the nicer a life you have if you don't work, the more people will choose not to work and the pickier they will be about what job they might be willing to accept.

They were "only following orders"...

When the paper is not to their liking, bureaucracies tend to have hissy-fits and throw their weight around.

CPS is another bureaucracy which has lost sight of its product and is caught up in process.

A capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself.

Absolut believes that they will gain by linking their concept of "An Absolut World" to a world in which significant parts of the American West are part of Mexico.