You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. (Thomas Sowell)

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Thomas Sowell

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