My kind of bureaucracy

Maybe the Department of Agriculture needs to be more like Britain's Rural Payments Agency:

Staff at a government agency office have been reported leaping naked from filing cabinets and carrying out stomach-churning pranks.

Civil servants are said to have had sex in the lavatories, taken drugs, used foul language, brawled in the reception area and held break-dancing contests in working hours.

Sounds like a fun place to work, eh?

Last month Lord Bach was moved from his post as farms minister after a week in office because of the Rural Payments Agency's failure to pay £1.5 billion of European subsidies on time to English farmers and landowners.

The fiasco has pushed many farmers to the brink of bankruptcy.

Now, I'm not generally in favor of anything that interrupts the economic planning of farmers (God does a good enough job of that). But failing to pay subsidies? That's MY kind of government!

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