Once a year, for the past years, I have taken my mother to a federal medical institution where she goes to see the same doctor. And every year the number of papers accompanying this visit is increasing. The medical procedure does not change, it remains the same.

A person prone to logic must certainly ask a question: how so? Indeed, if a few years ago a doctor did a medical procedure with a much smaller number of papers, and now he does the same procedure with a much larger number of papers, does this not mean that there is no sense in the papers? Well, the procedure was equally well executed both then and now.

However, in addition to logic, a person is also guided by life experience. And the experience of life in modern Russia is as follows: the state must develop. In other countries, success is measured by an increase in the number of startups and market capitalization. Yesterday. A self-respecting state is measured against itself last year. That is, it should become larger than last year. More departments. More people in every department. But what should all these departmental people do, which are becoming more and more? Right. They must invent new rules. Sorry for repeating the word base, it is justified here.

And so they sit, invent new rules, and then doctors and patients then carry papers to each other. More and more. Here I spent days making compensation for the old iron garage, which stood in the way of the new road. To get a fairly modest payment, I had to fill out, attention: eleven documents. By hand. Documents of completely schizophrenic content - for example, in one of them the address of the garage cooperative was indicated in the header, and in the text at the place of this address an empty space was left where the address had to be entered. Or, say, I had to write by hand the address of the correspondent account of the bank.

In other documents it was necessary to write your passport data two, or even three times. By hand !!! But this is not the end of the story, do not relax. In one of the eleven documents, I made a typo. And the weary man receiving the paper sent me to rewrite. And so while I was copying one of the documents, some unidentified person came into the office of the recipient and said that now one of the statements is necessary not in two copies, but in three. Well, two is not enough. And I had to fill out the twelfth form. Do you know what my current address is? Record: Moscow, the settlement of Mosrentgen, the village of the Mosrentgen plant. This is not what I came up with. All these senseless officials came up with it, and there are more of them every year, and these officials have to do something at least.

So you say: cut. But how to reduce them? This means that the department will become smaller. And the department cannot become smaller. Because if it becomes smaller, it means that it is no longer needed. No, the department can only get bigger. These are the inexorable laws of development.

All the same in the Duma. The deputies approved in the second reading a bill allowing the use of Nazi symbols for educational and enlightening purposes.

Watch your hands: first, deputies pass the law that propaganda of Nazi symbols is prohibited. After that, prosecutors (and they also have a plan! They also need more and more!) Begin to attract bloggers for publishing footage from “Seventeen Moments of Spring”. After which the deputies begin to adopt a law saying that yes, it is prohibited, but not very much. Because the deputies also have a plan! They also need more and more! One deputy of the State Duma said exactly that to me: you cannot immediately take and write a good law. The law must be adopted as it is, and then watch what happens. And edit by results.

And I would accept this point of view, but something tells me the existence of special people who provide for the need to amend laws in the future. Well, that is, such amendments are specially introduced into bills, which then will have to be corrected with new bills. Just because the Duma must also issue more and more laws on the mountain. Otherwise, why is it so needed?

And so, let's say, deputies with interested experts wrote a bill on the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles. Good bill thought out. And it was written in it that it concerns drones weighing from 20 kilograms. The deputies were told that the law is good, they adopted it in two minutes - the good one. And then they looked at the text, and there instead of 20 kilograms 200 grams were written. And now this law, of course, will have to be revised. And pass the amended laws. Well, otherwise, how? Otherwise, why is everything, it turns out?

So you ask: what now do the prosecutors do, since again you can swastika? How to carry out the plan? And I answer you: do not worry. Prosecutors will now be issued a new law on drug propaganda on the Internet. There they are drawn. Meanwhile, the deputies will prepare amendments to this law, because prosecutors will begin to plant cannabis for any image.

Here is the development.

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