Wednesday, March 28, 2007

你玩官僚?官僚玩你!

唔知道大家有冇好似孫柏文咁,喺公司、學校、政府等等,試過面對一位好官僚嘅人,希望同佢傾吓睇吓可唔可以落實一啲action。如果有,我相信大家講都未講個idea之前,已經會聽到:「唔好講住,有冇budget先?如果有,有幾多先?」

對於官僚嚟講,冇嘢大得過budget,大家都應該聽過,政府好多部門嘅第一個考慮,唔係點樣「做好呢份工」,而係點樣「可以令出年嘅budget唔少過今年」。其實,官僚有呢種心態一啲都唔出奇,因為有咗呢種心態,就可以令到個官僚架構有強大嘅生命力。

Stockman's Revenge

當年,花旗國列根總統Ronald Reagan面對蘇聯核子武器威脅,喺全球生物可以隨時毀滅之下,佢曾經講過:「The hardest thing to kill is a government program once it has been created.」好粗略繙譯成「官僚係最難消滅」。不過,因為列根總統經過多年經驗,明白到官僚嘅最大弱點,就係吓吓都講budget,所以明白到殺死官僚嘅最佳方法,就係cut佢budget。

列根總統為求落實「殺官僚」呢個「真強政勵治」嘅管治方針,就搵咗個叫做David Stockman嘅人返嚟,做佢個花旗國政府Budget Director。Stockman可能知道,就算係冇普選嘅社會,行政部門管理層只要一有錢,就會為咗自己嘅官途,去花錢落啲「繼續令佢有份工」嘅 project上。如果有人問關於個project嘅成本效益,行政部門只要拖幾個有幾百個title嘅「專家顧問」,就可以繼續上馬。

如果班「專家顧問」都唔可以擺平啲反對聲音,就可以話啲覺得冇成本效益嘅反對聲音「唔愛國」。所以為咗徹底打擊官僚,Stockman就提倡大力減稅、甚至特登製造非常嚴重嘅財政赤字,去達成「真強政勵治」,因為只要政府冇錢冇budget,甚至要借錢,就可一一「殺死」啲浪費社會資源嘅官僚。當時,呢個「減稅殺官僚」嘅行動,就被稱為Stockman's Revenge。

就係咁,好多政府部門嘅膨脹速度開始慢落嚟,而喺政府工作嘅官僚當然唔開心,覺得Stockman玩佢哋。不過,大家可能察覺到我只係話官僚「膨脹速度慢下來」,冇話過被殺死,所以只要有足夠嘅時間,都可以報仇雪恨。到今時今日,官僚卒之報復,因Stockman早前加入私募基金,亦投資介入一間就快執笠嘅公司,希望力挽狂瀾。點知,間公司最後都執笠,令好多人蝕錢,政府官僚就把握機會告佢「詐騙」。所以,大家如果想「殺官僚」,就要明白今日你玩官僚?他朝官僚玩你!

3 comments:

  1. "真強政勵治"

    我以為自己睇緊武俠小說! :P

    可以將gum Q悶o既題材講到出神入化﹐佩服佩服!

    Finish your book yet? hahaha

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  2. Probably someone has said
    "You will pay back ... i'll remember this" at that time.

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  3. Hey Kafka,

    hahahah

    "可以將gum Q悶o既題材講到出神入化﹐佩服佩服!"

    Maybe i should go teach... they will all get As...

    My book. Not done. Getting there.

    Yo tintin,

    maybe... but i think he did piss off a lot of people by the budget cuts. pretty amazing strategy to think about it.

    Shuen

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