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> A new report suggests the state of Michigan is the latest to learn that lesson the hard way. There doesn’t seem to be any lesson-learning happening, since go
by ryandrake 4mo ago
> A new report suggests the state of Michigan is the latest to learn that lesson the hard way.
There doesn’t seem to be any lesson-learning happening, since governments keep trying this despite the outcome always being the same.
- binary132 4mo agoit’s almost as if they are just lying about the purpose and doing it for some other purpose that it is perfectly effective for
- Henchman21 4mo agoSelf-enrichment on the part of government employees?! I am SHOCKED BEYOND ALL BELIEF. /s
- coldbrewed 4mo agoWe need more judges and prosecutors that are hungry to catch corruption and are willing to go after white collar crime.
- Avicebron 4mo agoWe need people of the "can't afford a house, making 50K a year in a rural state" class in politics. That would shake things up.
- peterfirefly 4mo agoThey will mysteriously suddenly be able to afford houses (plural) without making much more than 50K a year.
- metaphor 4mo agoIt's a distinct signal of pure ignorance that you conflate the highest levels of publicly elected executive leadership with "government employees".
- 0xbadcafebee 4mo agoCorrect, reporting this is doing nothing to stop it. People don't directly see the impact of it on their paychecks or budgets so they forget about it the hour after they read about it. The next politician can do it without fear of reprisal
- kgwxd 4mo agopointing out a stop sign does nothing to stop cars either, but it's a pretty important step if you want any cars to stop.
- vannevar 4mo ago>There doesn’t seem to be any lesson-learning happening... Which would indicate that creating jobs was not the actual reason for the grants. Given how trivially easy it would be fix the problem (simply make the grant contingent on the creation of jobs, otherwise it converts to a loan), the real purpose is probably a matter of generating headlines and raking in campaign contributions (with occasional full-on kickbacks probably happening as well). All of which it apparently does well enough that politicians continue to do it.
- Cpoll 4mo agoImplementing your loan-contingency wouldn't prevent generating headlines, so that would only leave contributions and kickbacks.
- vannevar 4mo agoIf the program actually does create jobs, it doesn't much matter whether or not the politician benefits, because it still serves the public interest.
- dmix 4mo ago> Given how trivially easy it would be fix the problem (simply make the grant contingent on the creation of jobs, otherwise it converts to a loan Sounds like a good way to create lots of fake jobs and scammy businesses.
- vannevar 4mo agoPretty easy to check on. And I'm not sure how the company would profit from giving away money to thousands of people who didn't work. And even if for some reason they did, we've seen that it actually stimulates the economy, which is the whole point.