Quote Originally Posted by NTFDAY View Post
Bureaucrats, don't you just love them? That's a case of the right hand either not knowing what the left hand is doing or doesn't know that it exists. And the sad part is that they are government employees that think we work for them instead of the other way around.
Ain't that the truth!
You sure dribbled a bib full there Ken!
A democratic government should be: of the people. by the people, for the people.
Employees of the government are 'civil servants', ie servants of the civilians in that they work for the good of the general population.
Sadly that seems to have been forgotten.
If it's any consolation to you though mate you lot don't have it on your own. It's universal throughout government departments the world over.

(Please don't ask me how I know this; suffice to say that we're trying to build a new house/shed adjacent to a State Highway...sob!)