Just a Little Red Tape

This video, which you may have seen elsewhere, explains why there's no broadband yet in spite of years of government machinery turning. 


Enormous red tape in the bush.


For me the take away quote is, "We're talking about elementary financial controls that are necessary for any company to function. If a commercial company operated like the Federal government, it would immediately go bankrupt, it would be delisted, and the officers would be arrested."

2 comments:

Texan99 said...

Peter Falk had the most wonderful deadpan, and Alan Arkin the best faint blinking response. I'll never forget his role as James Wood's father in "Joshua Then and Now," telling the story of Job to his grandkids and concluding, "But this is not just another gambling story with a happy ending . . . ." Red tape in the bush indeed.

I remember him first in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" when I was 12. He was wonderful in Grosse Point Blank in 1997.

Grim said...

Yes, Grosse Pointe Blank is a fantastic film all around.