Americans eat paper and ink, dollar bills, bureaucratic paralysis

[fpb]

Seriously. They must feed on them. That is the only explanation of their business practices. A British or Italian translation agency will get in touch, describe the job, ask whether I'm available, and leave me to it till delivery. But with Americans, I am not even allowed to read the document before I have got through two or three pieces of formal, elaborate paperwork; which, given that most outsourced translation work tends to be needed urgently, can be a nuisance. I recently had to give up a last-minute job because the damned paperwork was cutting into it too much.

Comments

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

At least we'll be able to burn them for fuel in a few years. Can't do that with coins.

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

Printing money is one thing the government is very good at! We can't lower the government's self-esteem by removing jobs they are good at. Especially during a recession. Maybe we can open a sheltered-workshop and start printing more paper money and government bonds? Short-term, of course.