Paul Finch told readers of Architects Journal that the UNESCO bureaucrats, based in frozen-in-aspic Paris, should mind their own business.
Initially, according to former officials familiar with the process, the lists were compiled and approved by an interagency committee of lawyers and bureaucrats based on recommendations from the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
Whatever Mr Blair's Napoleonic style, a much smaller percentage of Britain's bureaucrats are based at the very centre (that is, in and around Downing Street) than is the case in Canada, France or the Netherlands, according to the Institute for Government.
It tends to get people who are much younger and healthier than the average old folks on whom the Medicare bureaucrats base their reimbursement schedules.
Even going back to the old collaboration between blazered FA bureaucrats and locally based, over-grown, fan-boy, small business spivs would be preferable to the current system.
Under any system of mandatory insurance, the state must necessarily define what constitutes an acceptable insurance policy, meaning that individuals are buying insurance on terms influenced by lobbyists and bureaucrats, rather than based on a rational assessment of their needs.
On August 7th, Palin posted her thoughts on her Facebook page: "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care.
She wrote: "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down's syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of healthcare".
By Zachary Kanin September 25, 2009 The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care.
At Mother Jones, Adam Serwer chimed in: During the debate over the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin … memorably accused the administration of trying to institute "death panels" through which "bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether [her family] are worthy of health care".
