Rules for Bureaucracy

We’ve heard of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.  The Mises Institute published The Seven Rules for Bureaucracy.  Here is the general outline.  Click the link below to read the article. 

Rule #1: Maintain the problem at all costs! The problem is the basis of power, perks, privileges, and security.

 

Rule #2: Use crisis and perceived crisis to increase your power and control.

 

Rule #3: If there are not enough crises, manufacture them, even from nature, where none exist

 

Rule #4: Control the flow and release of information while feigning openness.

 

Rule #5: Maximize public-relations exposure by creating a cover story that appeals to the universal need to help people.

 

Rule #6: Create vested support groups by distributing concentrated benefits and/or entitlements to these special interests, while distributing the costs broadly to one's political opponents.

 

Rule #7: Demonize the truth tellers who have the temerity to say, "The emperor has no clothes."

 

Americans are finally waking up to this whole charade. Hopefully, we’ll be able to throw off our shackles and dismantle this slave ship.

 

Source:  http://mises.org/daily/5955/