Russian take on Bush's State of the Union blather

[michael perelman]

I am still wondering.  Are you saying that even with the decline in
economic growth and the emigration and the growth in privatization, that
there is still 60% more bureaucrats.

Chris Doss wrote:
> 
> Yep. Being a bureaucrat is a guaranteed way of enriching yourself via
> bribes, so you make lots of extra bureaucratic posts for your friends...
> 
> Putin is attempying to cut down the bureaucracy. The number of businesses
> transactions requiring government licenses -- which usually means paying
> bribes -- has dropped from something like 1,000 to under 100 (numbers pulled
> from my ass, but they're something like that).
> 
> Chris Doss
> The Russia Journal
> ------------------
> 
> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 14:01:12 -0800
> From: Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu>
> Subject: Re: Russian take on Bush's State of the Union blather
> 
> Really, it is 60% bigger?
> 
> Chris Doss wrote:
> 
> >
> > I do see a possible arms race in the future, assuming the Russian economy
> > continues to boom and the bureaucracy -- which is 60 percent larger today
> > than it was in the USSR
> 
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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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