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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (275904)2/21/2006 7:33:47 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1576850
 
As for the gov't spending, I am talking very little increased spending.........but rather fast tracking projects that have already been approved so that they go into development quickly........could be construction projects or the buying of buses or rail cars. Expenditures that result in an immediate stimulus either to manufacturing or construction.

I am all for this, but IMO the real problem isn't the spending, but the huge-ass bureaucracies in all layers of government which makes things run extremely inefficiently. And all those bureaucratic agencies are there for one purpose and one purpose only: preserving themselves and their funding.

I have worked on both sides of the marketplace. Gov't is no more bloated than large corporations. Large entities spawn bureaucracies whether they are public or private. I would say gov't employees work slower than private employees but not by much.

In CA, what you are experiencing is gov't that has been decimated....hence the long lines anytime you want to deal with gov't. What has happened in CA was forewarned back in the 1970s when they passed Prop. 13. Apparently, no one really listened. You get what you pay for.

Like I told Z when he mentioned that he started contributing money to politics, if I see some candidate who can be trusted to bust up these bureaucracies, my money will go there.

Then you will only be making your own life more painful. I know this will come as a suprise to you but there is just as many public employees who take pride in their work as private.

The thing that irritates people is that they pay their taxes but don't have much control over how the money is spent. That's the only area of one's life where that happens. Instead of worrying about the money, I just make sure I get good service. One of the reasons I left CA was that it just wasn't possible to get good service there given the shortage of staff and many problems facing the employees.
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