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Yeah mostly agree, why do government programs always result in so much misuse and fraud? I don't really agree with how you portray the Govt. as a helpless parti

Yeah mostly agree, why do government programs always result in so much misuse and fraud? I don't really agree with how you portray the Govt. as a helpless participant that is just responding to peoples complaints. It is a failure of the government to me, giving away billions with no oversight is an invitation to bad actors. Exploitative people will always appear anytime an opportunity to make money springs up, the Govts job is to prevent that. This is literally a fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me scenario but the people being fooled are govt officials we trust billions of $s to.

vkou 4y ago
> Yeah mostly agree, why do government programs always result in so much misuse and fraud? * Inefficiency from steps 3, 4. * Money going to advocacy groups who are really good at advocacy, but not actually good at execution. * Impossible to build execution-focused groups when funds appear one year, and go poof the next year. * Lack of economies of scale. One group can manage 800 housing/shelter units for vastly less money than 80 different groups managing 10 housing/shelter units each. Most of these problems are actually solved by having the government provide these services in-house, instead of subcontracting to 80 different non-profits, with each of them having a ton of overhead, waste, lack of continuity of mission, etc. You also have direct democratic control of this, because council has direct influence, and can be held accountable for how the city's departments run.