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We pilgrims all
agree that explaining abstract concepts in everyday language is far from a dumb
activity. Indeed, it usually requires more intelligence than speaking in code
does. Universality, public administration, and comprehensiveness, for example,
are huge abstract health care principles. Codes are usually more vague than
precise. It's the dialect that's a dumbing down.
After Ottawa, we
travelled south to the USA. We revisited former President Clinton's executive
order to eliminate one-half of the executive branch internal regulations.
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President Clinton's Declaration
Before
By the
authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
and section 1111 of title 31, United States Code, and to cut 50 percent of the
executive branch's internal regulations in order to streamline and
improve customer service to the American people, it is hereby ordered as
follows:
Section 1
Regulatory Reductions. Each executive department
and agency shall undertake to eliminate not less than 50 percent
of its civilian internal management regulations that are not required by
law within 3 years of the effective date of this order. An agency internal
management regulation, for the purposes of this order, means an
agency directive or regulation that pertains to its organization, management,
or personnel matter. Reductions in agency internal management regulations
shall be concentrated in areas that will result in the greatest
improvement in productivity, streamlining of operations, and improvement in
customer service. |
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| Note: |
- the
difficult syntax in the first paragraph: buried action
- the
wordiness requiring two slides and 229 words
- the old
language such as shall and undertake,
- the noun
strings
- the
passive verbs
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