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Well, I think you were to take a look at the budgets... you would find that there is enough money. At least up here in Canada. You need to spend your budget or
by McDoku 12y ago
Well, I think you were to take a look at the budgets... you would find that there is enough money. At least up here in Canada.
You need to spend your budget or you get less money. And frankly, some departments should recieve less if they come in under.
The problem is that the people who do an incompetent job and/or give out grants via patronage. They never really operating a competive service The over head is just disgusting.
You cannot fire the incompetent or the amoral. There is lots of fat to cut in these organizations. I know people that start out working hard on cases but then are nerfed to keep others from looking bad.
Hell I even offered to teach a google alert class for job seekers and the department free of charge. Did they do it... nah duplication of effort keeps their budget high and their employment stable.
- judk 12y agoIf you think of these govt agencies as employment-welfare themselves, makework jobs with a false veneer of productivity, it begins to make sense. The bureaucracy is the actual welfare program.
- jjoonathan 12y agoI don't think that was ever the intent, although I do know a handful of conservatives who swear up and down that it was all part of the liberal agenda. I always thought a much more plausible explanation was simply the accountability gap in public policy. The voters don't care if a policy works or not, they care if it sounds like it works according to their preconceived notions about how society functions (e.g. charging people to ride the bus will save money). Analyzing policy is a difficult and thankless task. It's hard to do right and voters don't pay attention anyway. My suggestion: give each candidate 1/2 (or 1/3 or 1/4) of a ballot page to use as they please (with caveats on sourcing data). Let the infographic battles begin! It's not a perfect solution, but I think that it could do a great deal to steer the debate back in the correct direction: the post-mortem debunkings would likely be more socially productive than any immediate effect the graphics had on voter behavior.
- Liesmith 12y agoYou have no idea what you are talking about.
- McDoku 12y agoHonestly, I think of it as embezzlement via black hat bureaucracy. It is just theft with with virtually no consequences.