Just Because it Sounds Right…
I’ve read 2 different sets of people not agreeing entirely with some of Anna’s proposals. And no, I don’t refer to the politicians and bureaucrats. It came from other quarters and surprisingly, they gave reasons rather than just shouting in some stupid TV show. The first instance was from a financial paper, the Wall Street Journal (India edition). Their reasons were two-fold: first, they asked whether it made more sense to knock off the existing system and replace it with what the Lokpal wants rather than having two parallel, bloated, bureaucratic/policing, expensive systems? WSJ’s second argument was that the Lokpal addresses the symptoms (corruption) rather than the root causes (why is their corruption in the first place?). In WSJ’s opinion, the root cause is the red tape that surrounds everything, that takes forever to decide or execute anything, that places discretionary power in the hands of the politicians and the bureaucrats. WSJ’s preferred solution? Reduce the red tape. The ot...