Russia to cut 100,000 bureaucrat jobs by 2013: minister (First Cuba, now Russia, What about us?)

MSN ^ | 09/20/2010

[SeekAndFind]

Russia plans to slash 100,000 bureaucrat jobs by 2013, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday, in a drive to reduce costs and modernize the country's bloated bureaucracy.

"We expect that in the three years more than 100,000 federal civil servant jobs will be cut," Kudrin was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying.

[Psalm 144]

They are slowly but methodically detoxing from Leninism.

Just as we are ingesting it.

[SF_Redux]

George Soros experiment needs to end now

[I cannot think of a name]

Give us your paper pusher,

your red tape generator,

your pointless bureaucrat,

yearning to vegetate for a fee.....

I lift my bloated government to light the way.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Excellent !

[rawhide]

I have a young friend, in Russia, who was told last Sept she was losing her government job in December, as her department was being transferred to another city. Then they extended her job until March. Then in the Spring she found a job working for the local judge.

The young people will not be affected as much as the old bureaucrats in this downsizing, as the older ones have little internal drive to prosper independently, as the government has given them everything all their lives. Sad to see this.

[I cannot think of a name]

Unfortunately the Statue of Liberty had to be removed so it could be replaced with a more appropriate symbol...

The new statue is a pyramid, upside down balancing on the point. It was modeled after the organizational chart of most government agencies.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Then in the Spring she found a job working for the local judge.

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Well from one government job to another, what’s not to like?

Is this “transfer” from Federal (for want of a better word ) to Municipal ( again for want of a better word )?

[Juan Medén]

What about us? Well, we will be adding to our bureaucracy, see, because government spending is going to lead us out of the recession. Just like it did for the Soviet economies. Just ask the great community organizer, Captain Zero, and his chief economist, Paul (Vladimir) Krugman. Did I mention he won the Nobel Prize for Economics? </total sarcasm>

[Joe Boucher]

100,000 wouldn’t even be a good start.
Nation wide about 500,000 would be a good start at ALL levels of U.S. Govt.
Worthless maggots.

[Texas resident]

Capt. Zero and his team believe that marxism works only if the “right” people are in charge. They have no real world experience so they believe all the liberal/marxist fantasy they have been taught. And their arrogance won’t allow them to believe that they are wrong.

[Leo Carpathian]

Kenyan will welcome all the world proletariat, take it away from the rich 5% and give it to 60% of bums so they can enjoy TV, big cars and getting fat for another year.
After that? “equality” (all poor) will rein over the green earth and save themselves back to the stone age, when everybody so equal and peaceful.

[Cronos]

back, back, back in the USSA

[rawhide]

Not sure. But I would think the job with the judge is more secure. She is very sharp.

[Cossak]

You will laugh but capitalism requires significantly more numerous bureaucracy than leninism and more corrupt and greedy. Kudrin suxx. They will make it as always - fire 100 000 those who are making 90% of job at 10% of total volume of wages, so queues for registrations, permissions and all such for ordinary peoplewill become endless.

[Cossak]

You will laugh but capitalism requires significantly more numerous bureaucracy than leninism and more corrupt and greedy. Kudrin suxx. They will make it as always - fire 100 000 those who are making 90% of job at 10% of total volume of wages, so queues for registrations, permissions and all such for ordinary peoplewill become endless.