| HappySqurriel said: Personally, I find the argument that cutting back on government services is necessarily going to have a negative impact on individuals to be bizarre. Most governments are horribly inefficient organizations that are plagued with debt, have significant corruption, are subject to widespread fraud, and spend a large portion of their money in areas they shouldn’t be involved in. If the government was reduced to its core functions and focused on doing those efficiently while reducing corruption and fraud (and staying out of debt) you could probably run the government on 5% to 10% of GDP while the typical citizen didn’t notice any reduction of services. |
Reminds me of my job the other day. (for the government). Doing the Census. Security only allowed 2 people up with them at a time. So the government sent 12 people and had then take turns.
The smart thing of course being.. send 2 people.
It's more Apathy then anything else.
Government run operations can't go out of buisness so it's a matter of getting things done while getting your people paid as much as possible.
I'm not complaining cause I need the money... but if the census was being run by a private firm it'd already be done at a 10th of the cost.
