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- Jun 21, 2003
Here is an example. As I've written before, my job is "public procurement specialist": In most countries if a public subject (state, city, state organization etc.) if a public subject wants to sign a contract (like to build a road, buy the office equipment etc. etc.), the subject has to chose the contractor through the public competition. The tenderer aspiring to gain the contract have to fulfill some requirements and submit the best offer according to the criteria you set (the easiest is the lowest price but there can be many more). This system is pretty harsh, anyone involved, who feels his rights were violated can object etc., so there are many things you have to be careful about.
Now, usually the rightists present enterpreteurs as highly rational people (esp. in comparison with the public sector) who don't bother with useless things, emotions, animostities etc. It's astoundingly far from the truth. E.g. you receive five offers, review them by how they fulfill the requirements, exclude those that don't and choose the best (or in many cases the lesser evil ). Now I can guarantee you that among those who didn't suceed you will mostly find at least one subject that will start to complain, that you discriminated him somehow, that the conditions violated the law or whatever. Most of such complaints are completely unjustified and the one who makes them knows it that he wouldn't win even if his complaints would be accepted (it can be even the one with the worst offer). He doesn't do that for the reason to change the result and gicve ghimself another chance to win, he just thinks "if I don't win, let no other wins as well. That's the common practise, I'm not saying everyone acts like that but there are more of such people, who act irrationally and the way that doesn't bring them any advance, than you would expect.
Sorry for little topic:
To continue the analogy, I would say that the Russian Ferderation is You, and the angry whiners are the individual coaches, skaters, etc., who don't get the contract.
I would think that the job of the Federation is to make thee best choices that they can and ignore the noisy wuz-robbing.