Government Nonsense (Waste) vs. Retiree Benefits (gay, federal, state, engage)
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"In recent years the U.S. government has spent $2.6 million tax dollars to study the drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes and $400,000 tax dollars to pay researchers to cruise six bars in Buenos Aires, Argentina to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior when drunk."
Waste is part of governement. It's built into everything they do. Many parts of the economy depends on that waste factor for them to make money. If you eliminate the waste, you are really talking baout eliminating good american jobs and reducing the income that comes into the US economy. Cutting medicare does not in anyway equal having to say your eliminating american jobs. Cutting Medicare could also result in faster death rates of seniors which equals less benefits to pay out which equals less governement expenses. To a whole group of people, that's the best scenerio. truth is, waste has become so much part of governement that its now a program that politicians fight to preserve, even if that means a sad life for grams.
Waste is part of governement. It's built into everything they do. Many parts of the economy depends on that waste factor for them to make money. If you eliminate the waste, you are really talking baout eliminating good american jobs and reducing the income that comes into the US economy. Cutting medicare does not in anyway equal having to say your eliminating american jobs. Cutting Medicare could also result in faster death rates of seniors which equals less benefits to pay out which equals less governement expenses....and thus less jobs. To a whole group of people, that's the best scenerio. truth is, waste has become so much part of governement that its now a program that politicians fight to preserve, even if that means a sad life for grams.
Cutting medicare does not in anyway equal having to say your eliminating american jobs. Cutting Medicare could also result in faster death rates of seniors which equals less benefits to pay out which equals less governement expenses.
Because no one wants to make (or accept) the tougher call of focusing those clearly needed cuts
on specifics within the broad rubric "standards of care"... we'll end up with far broader cuts across the board.
The net end result will probably be worse that way.
"In recent years the U.S. government has spent $2.6 million tax dollars to study the drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes and $400,000 tax dollars to pay researchers to cruise six bars in Buenos Aires, Argentina to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior when drunk."
Let me restate the original poster's comment. The government has been known to spend tiny amounts of money on the scale of the federal budget on things that can be made to sound silly. That's not a basis for...drawing any conclusions at all, about government or public policy, or even about the merits of the particular tiny program at issue.
Let me restate the original poster's comment. The government has been known to spend tiny amounts of money on the scale of the federal budget on things that can be made to sound silly. That's not a basis for...drawing any conclusions at all, about government or public policy, or even about the merits of the particular tiny program at issue.
Oh really? It isn't the basis for calling into account the ridiculous programs that have created not only generational poverty but also a "gimme" entitlement attitude amongst those who have figured out how to game "the system?"
Bureaucracies are wasteful. Period. That is a known fact.
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