Blowing (budgets) in the wind

Hot on the heels of the piece on targets, I have to share this: Ministry of the flaming obvious

That's MOTFO. Of course I have long had my own acronym, STABO (Statin' The Absolute Bleedin' Obvious) for such institutional , fiscally squandering insanity, and feel it needs to be 'evolved with an additional prefix, GE, for 'Generating Empires'.

Seems appropriate, somehow. What was the forte of the guy in charge of a similarly-named, well-staffed, thought-control outfit a while ago?

Sample - In a total of 32 pages it rams home the astonishing message that winter can be a little on the chilly side.

Or... 'There is no social problem so pressing that it cannot be solved by a statement of the bleeding obvious delivered in a patronising tone.' Which requires a lot of money for people to come up with it, and even more to disseminate it. And who pays?

Now, I can send and invitation to the author to join our club, because he's arrived at this: 'What this suggests to me is that modern government is no longer interested in getting things done. What is much more important is giving the impression of activity.'