Argentina's government publishes decree dismissing around 7,000 state workers

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1. Actually, western Europe could use a good dose of that.

The governments of countries like Germany, NL, Belgium and France, for example, all have huge, bloated bureaucracies full of unnecessary “civil (hardly ever!) “ servants whose main function is to perpetuate their unfirable positions. “Beamten” in Germany, “fonctionnaires” in France, they are the same thing: useless paper pushers who are little more than taxpayer-financed office welfare. Their main purpose (even publicly admitted by some in interviews!) is to have coffee breaks, and to say “no” to people who manage to actually interact with them.