They want freedom
from local bureaucrats, the freedom to innovate and the freedom to raise standards of education that reflect the needs of local parents.»
Not exact matches
Underpinning much
local opposition is objection to diktat
from distant
bureaucrats in central government, but we need a way of gaining
local approval without allowing a tiny minority a veto on projects of essential national strategic importance.
And now, right on cue, comes this article
from Isabel Hilton on Guardian Environment http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jan/20/real-scandal-himalayas in which she states, among other things, that: «Kyrgyzstan, scientists predict, will lose 80 % of its water supply» [
from glacier depletion] which provokes the following comment
from the excellent MrEugenides: «This figure comes
from an article Isabel herself wrote on 6 October 2009, quoting a
local bureaucrat as saying that water supplies were under pressure
from a variety of factors
from river diversion and increased water usage to climate change.
Bureaucrats and governments can have the best intentions in the world, but if their ideas have not been subject to the «reality test» of the life experience of the
local Indigenous peoples who are intended to benefit
from this, then government efforts will fail.
For many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, their days and weeks involve answering the revolving door of government
bureaucrats from various federal, state and
local governments who come to talk about a whole range of issues.
This whole jumbled - up Canadian real estate transaction industry, as overseen and governed by a hodge - podge of national, provincial and
local boards» salaried
bureaucrats (who operate in a vacumn without accountability to its dues payers) and elected short - term registrant volunteers
from the trenches, remains mired in a constant state of amateur - hour disarray of contentious issues (as highlighted by Mark's words on this issue), which is only one contentious issue in Pandora's Box of many others.