paper-pushers

The explaination for the high average salary is obvious: mega bucks for non-teaching administrators like the 10 principals per high school, and hundreds or thousands of paper-pushers down at the central (or area) offices.

Leviathan Montgomery, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

They deliver nothing — they are only the paper-pushers.

Think Progress » Health insurers spent $38 million lobbying Congress in 2009. 2010

Typically, this utopian marketplace analysis is put forth with side-bar attacks on paternalistic economic development gurus, soft-headed nonprofit executives and government paper-pushers.

Jonathan Lewis: Mosquitoes and Markets Don't mix Jonathan Lewis 2010

Typically, this utopian marketplace analysis is put forth with side-bar attacks on paternalistic economic development gurus, soft-headed nonprofit executives and government paper-pushers.

Jonathan Lewis: Mosquitoes and Markets Don't mix Jonathan Lewis 2010

Right, here's a Happy New Year's holler to all the paper-pushers who now have to clean out the forms containing "Date: ________ __,200_"

Better Late Than Never: Happy New Year! 2010

When I first started handloading, I was very gung-ho, thought velocity was a god to worship, and that the major reloading manuals were too conservative and were written by desk-sitters and paper-pushers rather than by real shooters.

Two Cases Where Bigger Isn't Better 2008

We believe government is populated by paper-pushers, clock-watchers and pension-anticipators who wake up in the morning thinking about how little they can do, how much they can get away with.

Adam Hanft: Move Over Obama: Can Amy Poehler Make Us Fall In Love With Government Again? 2010

It does not and cannot: no analysis for efficiency has ever said to increase the paperwork and hire more paper-pushers.

Obamacare Surprise: Paperwork Octopus for Small Business | RedState 2010

We believe government is populated by paper-pushers, clock-watchers and pension-anticipators who wake up in the morning thinking about how little they can do, how much they can get away with.

Move Over Obama: Can Amy Poehler Make Us Fall In Love With Government Again? 2010

If Petraeus succeeds in this redefinition, this version of July 2011, the "transition of some tasks," could be fulfilled by American military accountants being replaced by Afghan paper-pushers.

Derrick Crowe: Who's the Huckster for This High-Interest War? 2010