Friday, December 12, 2008

If you believe in Planning...

[For those who put their faith in Master Plans and Strategic Plans as the solution to all our ills ... Take a lesson from history...]

Setting: A factory meeting in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

A lecturer from the district Party committee is telling the workers about their bright future in the USSR.

"See, comrades, after this five-year plan is completed, every family will have a separate apartment. After the next five-year plan is completed, every worker will have a car! And after one more five-year plan is completed, every family will own an airplane!"

From the audience, somebody asks, "What the hell one may need an airplane for?"

"Don't you see comrades? Let's say, there are shortages in potatoes supplies in your city. No problem! You take your own plane, fly to Moscow and buy potatoes!"

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