Tag: Government
Women in US Military
Lawrence Lessig, an American academic and political activist, on government transparency.
From the review: “Because the public cannot interpret or understand much of the data released by the government, transparency leads to wrong conclusions about
Smaller is Better
Examples of how everything small; business, government, charitable or any other kind of organization can function more effectively than big counterparts.
Nonprofits vs for profits
Service provided by non-profits actually are more expensive than services provided by profit companies. Compare education government and medical services, with airlines, media, computing,
Feds Get Paid $2 Billion During Shutdown!
Did you feel sorry for those poor federal government workers during the government shutdown? No need; it was just another paid vacation for them.
Pier Luigi Bersani, Italian Politician, on running for Prime Minister, which he, in fact, was doing at the time of this statement
Adding that Italy is “in a mess and faces a difficult year ahead”, Bersani made this bleak prognosis for the eurozone’s third biggest democracy.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California, on how he deals with the local implications of California crisis.
This is Schwarzenegger’s response when author Michael Lewis asked him how much time he had spent while governor of California grappling with local issues.