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Originally posted by cowtown
LOL - so many fail to understand this. They honestly believe a system with no incentives toward improving efficiency can do an awesome job. That "caring about people" or "liking government" can be the sole basis of solid policy.
Doesn't matter whether they're (R) or (D)...the only answer is to put them in charge of the bare essential public good unattainable by the individual...and nothing more.
You've got my vote...you need anyone to hand out pamphlets or something?
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I ran a government office for a decade. In that office, we processed something like seventy thousand documents that must be processed in order for contractors to be paid for their work on public works projects. So....as we processed these documents, potentially there were hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to contractors that could be held up if there was a backlog. There were times when there were backlogs. At one point, it was about two months. Think of it. Think of the value of a construction contractor's working capital. Again, this held up hundreds of millions of dollars. In sixty days, we're probably talking about a BILLION DOLLARS.
Now......why do you think we had this problem? Because I was a poor manager? Okay, sure, but besides that. Because my staff was lazy? I can tell you straight up that my staff was anything but lazy or inefficient. They were peerless, frankly. But here's the problem: They were understaffed. Underfunded. The money charged for processing these forms was EASILY enough to ENSURE that turnaround would be no more than three days, max. So are you wondering why those funds were not used to protect contractors' progress payments? Easy. It's a matter of public record. Our budget requests were denied. Now you should be wondering who denied those requests and why. Here's the good part:
The political party you guys like to demonize......approved my buget. That party wanted to get those funds to those contractors quickly and were willing to do what it took to ensure that. The other political party, the one you guys like to defend, the one those very contractors trusted and placed into office......denied my budget. Thereby punishing those contractors who, by the way, supported them. Why? Because the Republicans' hatred for government in general, and this (my office's) regulation in particular, was deep and furious enough that they were willing to deliberately ensure that the entire administrative function was tragically expensive. They wanted to ensure that my office lacked the ability to function properly.
This is not an unusual story. Many of the government offices you guys find frustrating......are inefficient on purpose. Not by any decision or attitude within the administering agency. And not by the liberals who like government and want it to run smoothly. Which it could. I saw first hand how gubmit gets fukked up. It is fukked up deliberately by the elected representatives of people like you who hate government.
Frankly, I look at Republicans like I looked at Fastpat. As traitors. People who want to bring my government down. I saw it with my own eyes. I heard it with my ears. I read it in documents. There is a deliberate agenda among certain legislators to ensure that government offices are inefficient. Those legislators would prefer those government functions be privately contracted. So they can put your tax dollars into their pockets directly. And they're willing to mess up your quality of life in order to orchestrate that.