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        "msgid": "a-strange-tale-1447899208",
        "date": "1996-03-27 00:00:00",
        "title": "A strange tale",
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        "source": "",
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        "summary": "A strange tale Mr. Coelho's letter 'Economic theory' (The Jakarta Post, March 23, 1996) makes a bold and unorthodox declaration: When governments sleep, nations march and occasionally even sprint. Skeptics will ask \"How come?\" Let me tell you the tale of two simple souls. They believed that the nearest government office was the answer to their problems. So, with a spring in their step, they made their way there. But it was the afternoon and nobody was there.",
        "content": "<p>A strange tale<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Coelho's letter 'Economic theory' (The Jakarta Post, March<br>\n23, 1996) makes a bold and unorthodox declaration: When<br>\ngovernments sleep, nations march and occasionally even sprint.<br>\nSkeptics will ask \"How come?\"<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you the tale of two simple souls. They believed<br>\nthat the nearest government office was the answer to their<br>\nproblems. So, with a spring in their step, they made their way<br>\nthere. But it was the afternoon and nobody was there. However,<br>\nthey managed to find a genial Satpam. They asked in despair \"Does<br>\nno one work here?\" \"That they do in the mornings, sir, in the<br>\nafternoons they're not here,\" said the watchman, obviously using<br>\na well-practiced phrase. Here was a lesson, said one of the men.<br>\n\"Let us vow never to come here again.\"<\/p>\n<p>In the next office, he started off on a different tack,<br>\nthinking \"I will give these slackers a piece of my mind.\" He<br>\nbarked at the first underling one he came across \"Take me to your<br>\ntop dog.\" \"Can I be of help?\" he responded meekly. \"Don't you use<br>\ncommon sense over here?\" \"No,\" he responded. \"We are prisoners<br>\nof our office, sir, debarred from using common sense.\"<\/p>\n<p>In short, governments are an oasis where work waits, leisure<br>\nabounds, energy rests, tenure endures, entitlements expand, and<br>\nhigher echelons thrive. And miraculously, outside of this lies a<br>\nbubbling, frantic mix of the good, the bad and the ugly that<br>\ncreates wealth and prosperity, but is held hostage and adroitly<br>\nhandled to guarantee a good time for all oasis-dwellers.<\/p>\n<p>G.S. EDWIN<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta<\/p>",
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