(Download) "Making Do with Less: Crown Corporations in an Age of Restraint." by Canadian Parliamentary Review ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Making Do with Less: Crown Corporations in an Age of Restraint.
- Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date : January 22, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 241 KB
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The French philosopher Jacques Maritain wrote that "man is in no sense there for the State. The State is there for man." Paul Valery said, "If the State is powerful, it crushes us. If it is not powerful, we are lost." Today Governments on both right and left are cutting public services because they cannot find the money to fund them. Reducing the deficit entails eliminating spending. Every legislature in the country now boasts of extensive expertise in the consequences of liquidating its Crown corporations. Parliamentarians, many with great reluctance, have had the responsibility of adjusting the size of government to the needs of the current decade, while all around unemployment, bankruptcies, job losses and seizures by creditors go hand-in-hand with plummeting real estate values and a steadily weakening dollar. In 1973, Ernest Schumacher published his best-selling Small Is Beautiful, singing the praises of small business enterprises. Today economic considerations are forcing governments to embrace smallness, in ways that ten years ago would have seemed far-fetched but are now realities, or at any rate seen as entirely reasonable possibilities.