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> "but the same voters balk at other government spending, decrying it for waste or corruption or inefficiency, etc." Oh, the irony.
by mcv 6y ago
> "but the same voters balk at other government spending, decrying it for waste or corruption or inefficiency, etc."
Oh, the irony.
- BitwiseFool 6y agoSadly, the candidates I trust to spend federal money wisely get trounced in every election.
- dublin 6y agoGovernment is always inefficient, even in the rare cases where it's not utterly corrupt. As Bill Buckley famously put it, "What would happen if the Communists occupied the Sahara? Answer: Nothing—for 50 years. Then there would be a shortage of sand."
- mcv 6y agoAre you aware that Dubai imports sand? It's not communism they've got there, though. More a sort of feudalism, I think. Anyway, government is only inefficient if you want it to be. If you keep voting for corrupt grifters that waste money, that's what you get. There are plenty of examples of government being fairly efficient. In the US, the Republican Party has been preaching the evils of government for decades, and when in power, they've made sure that they were correct about it. They made it a self-fulfilling prophesy.