Comments on: This is what happens when excessive rules sap all initiative

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:53:18 +0000

If they violate procedures and the explicit guideline rules, they are open to any variety of problems.

Welcome to America, the land of Insane Law. And yet, we are a land ruled by Men, not by Laws. It’s the worst of both possible worlds!

Nevertheless, you look at that wonderful picture, and you realize there are great and wonderful people who don’t give a damn about our insane current system.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:39:40 +0000

To create a nation of serfs and slaves, it’s not hard.

By: BrianE

BrianE — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:21:56 +0000

It’s easy to blame the ambulance crew or supervisor for this fiasco, but really it should be filed under “The Law of Unintended Bureaucratic Consequences”.
It is the perfect example of using law to make society perfect.
This should be labeled as the poster representing the impending catastrophe of ‘health care reform’. The absurb consequences will be played out across America in ways that might not be so obvious, but just as potentially dangerous.

By: benning

benning — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:50:28 +0000

Phillip K. Howard exposed the insanity of ‘process’ in his 1994 book, “The Death Of Common Sense – How Law is Suffocating America”.

Obviously this is going on elsewhere, too. Ugly stupidity, masquerading as ‘following the rules,’ is endangering our lives and livelihoods. A disgrace in every possible way.

Sheesh!

By: David Foster

David Foster — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:29:17 +0000

Here’s a related incident, which also happened in the UK several years ago..can’t find it online but remember it pretty well.

An elderly man in a nursing home fell, and the (male) attendant refused to pick him up, because the *rules* only required him to pick up objects weighing X pounds or less. (The man who fell was not especially heavy; maybe 150 lbs or so)

The man who had fallen had been an RAF pilot in WWII, and the airplane he flew, IIRC, was a Gloster Gladiator, an actual *biplane*, which had no business in WWII air combat…it was being used only because of desperate need.

So, here’s a man who put his life at risk flying an obsolete airplane against well-armed enemies, and 60 years later, someone won’t pick him up because the rules don’t require it.