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So you would like government to compete in private markets with tax payers money?

by lastyearman 10y ago

vkou 10y ago
Common infrastructure is typically not considered to be a private market.
- lastyearman 10y ago
  Don't know the details about US but around here government uses private contractors to build infrastructure. Using the unemployed would be competing against said contractors and make their employees unemployed instead.
yummyfajitas 10y ago
No, I'd like the government to stop paying people to do nothing, and instead pay them to provide government services. Rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, provide child care to working women, left wing types have a huge laundry list of things they'd like the government to do more of. I'd also like to replace as many (currently overpaid) government workers with welfare types as possible. Why pay $50k/year to a unionized govt janitor when you can just order someone currently on welfare to do the same job for no extra money?
- selimthegrim 10y ago
  Try doing this with the MTA or LIRR workers or the prison guards and see how far you get in the next election before they strike and clog up the city.
  - yummyfajitas 10y ago
    I agree that shutting down certain criminal organizations may be politically infeasible, since they can hold us hostage to keep their gravy train running. When I say they are criminal organizations, I refer to organizations with rates of disability fraud as high as 97%. http://mtaig.state.ny.us/assets/breaking_news/Newsday_7-23-13_Retirees_Timely_Departures.pdf http://mtaig.state.ny.us/assets/breaking_news/Newsday_7-23-1... http://www.independentsentinel.com/a-must-read-federal-judge-commends-crook-in-lirr-gravy-train-case/ http://www.independentsentinel.com/a-must-read-federal-judge... https://nypost.com/2014/08/06/nearly-all-lirr-workers-have-disability-payments-approved/ https://nypost.com/2014/08/06/nearly-all-lirr-workers-have-d... What I'd suggest is that if they don't cause trouble, we don't send them to jail.

So you would like government to compete in private markets with tax payers money?

vkou 10y ago

Common infrastructure is typically not considered to be a private market.

lastyearman 10y ago
Don't know the details about US but around here government uses private contractors to build infrastructure. Using the unemployed would be competing against said contractors and make their employees unemployed instead.

yummyfajitas 10y ago

No, I'd like the government to stop paying people to do nothing, and instead pay them to provide government services. Rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, provide child care to working women, left wing types have a huge laundry list of things they'd like the government to do more of. I'd also like to replace as many (currently overpaid) government workers with welfare types as possible. Why pay $50k/year to a unionized govt janitor when you can just order someone currently on welfare to do the same job for no extra money?

selimthegrim 10y ago
Try doing this with the MTA or LIRR workers or the prison guards and see how far you get in the next election before they strike and clog up the city.
- yummyfajitas 10y ago
  I agree that shutting down certain criminal organizations may be politically infeasible, since they can hold us hostage to keep their gravy train running. When I say they are criminal organizations, I refer to organizations with rates of disability fraud as high as 97%. http://mtaig.state.ny.us/assets/breaking_news/Newsday_7-23-13_Retirees_Timely_Departures.pdf http://mtaig.state.ny.us/assets/breaking_news/Newsday_7-23-1... http://www.independentsentinel.com/a-must-read-federal-judge-commends-crook-in-lirr-gravy-train-case/ http://www.independentsentinel.com/a-must-read-federal-judge... https://nypost.com/2014/08/06/nearly-all-lirr-workers-have-disability-payments-approved/ https://nypost.com/2014/08/06/nearly-all-lirr-workers-have-d... What I'd suggest is that if they don't cause trouble, we don't send them to jail.