Red Tape Wrangler Gifts

'Oh, dear! — your baptismal certificate was never notarized!'

'Send this back to the legal department. I think they could make it much more complicated than this...'

'All these regulations take the fun out of capitalism.'

"I can give you a 93.4% assurance that there is less than a 65.6% possibility that this excercise will simply generate 34.8% more meaningless statistics."

Bereaucracy kills.

Skills and experience held back by bureaucracy and protocols.

'Could you bring me the new investment regulations you downloaded yesterday?' 'It's still downloading.'

'I'm just running this past legal.'

'Sure, we could make it simpler but that would only complicate matters.'

Report suggests social workers spend 60% of their time on admin - "Do you remember when all wehad to worry about was client care?"

"Unofficially I can tell you that the information that you want to know is SECRET...but if you give me a few months to talk to the rght people and grease a few palms then I think I'll be able to get official..."

'Colin was beginning to realise he should have gone to XXXXX.'

Tied up in red tape.

'I'm sorry, sir, this is the department of Immediate Dissatisfaction. Your appointment is with the Bureau of Eternal Frustration.'

'Take this and make it much more difficult than it needs to be.'

Planning Department.

Bureaucracy.

"It's a 300 page government questionnaire about cutting back on bureaucracy."

"When you're finished here, Spencer, we'll need you on the bridge-to-nowhere project."

'It guides you through the halls of bureaucracy.'

"We just need to cut through all the pesky government red tape."

"There must be an easier way!"

"There's a moving truck backing up to our loading dock. Maybe they're delivering the government regulatory guidelines."

"Do you remember when all we had to do was farm?"

An astronaut sees a sign saying zoning in force.

"If there was only somebody we could consult!"

'The idea bureaucracy is on the increase is RIDICULOUS... and I have the reports to prove it!'

Department of Commerce:'Regulate...Deregulate'

'And that pretty much sums it up.'

CITY HALL, NO PROBLEM IS TOO BIG OR TOO SMALL., 'Oh, no, your problem isn't too big or too small - it's just too difficult.'

Two men who work for The Federal Department of Bureaucracy look at chart 'Things to Pretend to do Today'

'The government is keen not to interfere with private enterprise.'

'I tripped over a box of red tape.'

Moses holds up new federal regulation guidelines.

Planning Dept - Please Ring.