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.
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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
Everybody - stop this thread please.
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Laying off food inspectors, tax auditors, veteran department employees,
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.
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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
