This is sort of the skeleton key to understanding a lot of shit: there 100% is a non-trivial amount of inefficiency and waste in the federal bureaucracy, and most of it is a *direct result* of ‘reforms’ that are meant to assuage the people who complain about “waste and inefficiency in govt”
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for decades the federal govt has bent over backwards to limit spending even on totally sensible things like office coffee, all so they can say your tax dollars aren't going to pay for coffee. and it was all for nothing bc elon is tweeting out conspiracy theories about non-existent fraud.
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Mussolini and Pol Pot were hella-efficient.
I learned a long time ago that the government is not a business and can’t be run like one because of those requirements and laws.
I wish we could buy 30 minutes of prime time TV like Ross Perot and have Hank do an updated version for all to learn.
That leads to maintenance and part price hikes because the manufacturer stopped producing the parts a decade or more ago.
But it may still be cheaper than spinning up new R&D for a replacement item.
Part of our mission is to protect the trust taxpayers put in civil servants.
And every bit as useless for assuaging the people who demanded it, because they didn't want a process.
https://youtu.be/CVgNJf6CsBA?t=24m
Credit card fraud could be zero, given enough spending on anti-fraud measures, for example.
Compromise is how a democracy works, and indeed is the very purpose of a democracy.
Corruption is what trump smelled like in court.
They pay billions more to contractors to fuel the military industrial complex.
Im no military guy but something is messed up here.
Okay but people might take advantage, so can you add 100s of pages of forms to make it harder to get help?
But that's going to cost more than just helping everyone...
Don't care! I only want to help the "deserving poor", so go find them using paperwork!
X100,000
Next Dem President needs to be ready to doll out revenge.
A private sector billing rate is typically 3-4x that employee's hourly rate.
So it's outside the discussion compared to FERS.
"Gov't waste" is a blue lie, and/or a pretext for rubes in the public.
Legislators know how it works, & who benefits.
Like, lol- work at some and come back and say that shit
"The profit center of the IRS? Better cut their funding"
"Better cap wages as to make sure we're not competitive in several key areas"
(I like blaming Ralph Nader, but admittedly it wasn't just him who pioneered this)