The assumption that government is inefficient is for fools. Medicare processes claims for 3% while health care insurers do it for 20%. There are many other examples. But, I suspect certain people here are anti government red hat types.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 1:07 PM, Michael Oujesky <reflect...@oujesky.net> wrote: And neither the original post nor the response are germane to this forum. At 05:42 PM 3/4/2025, Dick Williams wrote: >Laying off food inspectors, tax auditors, veteran department >employees, health workers, scientists, weather forecasters, FEMA >employees, etc. doesn't seem to be smart. Perhaps eliminating Tesla >subsidies and taxing the wealthy properly would help with the debt. > > >Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > >On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 7:42 AM, Bob Bridges ><00000587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >It just occurred to me that government agencies may be missing an >important point. Surely much of the inevitable bloat in any >bureaucracy (not just ours but every long-lived government in >history) comes from adding new responsibilities to existing >agencies? "Hey, we already do THIS; The Peepul would benefit so >much more if we can also do THIS." > >But with all these government layoffs, I see no hint in the news >that everyone's going to eliminate services as a result. No, >they'll all just try to keep providing all the same services with >fewer people, and of course doing them badly (or at least more badly). > >--- >Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > >/* If you're not failing when you train or test your security, >you're not learning anything. -Craig Tucker */ > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On >Behalf Of Mike Schwab >Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 22:41 > >And don't forget inside attacks. DOGE firings, changes may result >in missed Social Security payments, delays in payment enrollment. >https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/doge-actions-may-cause-social-security-benefit-interruption-ex-agency-head.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
