"Civil" "Servants"
PARIS -- French face prosecution for "insulting" civil servants.
Isn't the problem that "civil servants" usually aren't very "civil," and they're not very "servile?"
CARPE DIEM
Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Isn't the problem that "civil servants" usually aren't very "civil," and they're not very "servile?"
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Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University near Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. In addition to a faculty appointment at the University of Michigan-Flint, Perry is also a visiting scholar at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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3 Comments:
So what we have here is one set of French folks being rude and another set running off to get government regulations put in place.
Hmmm. Dog bites man?
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In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil MASTER'.
- Lazarus Long(R. A. Heinlein) -
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What's the definition of a civil servant?
Someone to lazy, to brain dead, or to dishonest to hold a real job...
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