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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (140813)7/14/2010 1:40:41 PM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (1) of 542970
 
Be interesting to see what Steve's position is on the "inefficiencies."

Steve replies chuckling;
Think of your own budget; if you have lots of spending money you buy things you don't really need but want - maybe some art work or new tool or a vacation to France. If however you are on a very tight budget, you end up spending your money on necessities such as food, medicine and beer. .....stay with me here......Government is the same way; you will get your funding for the sheriffs dept, but your dump might close two days a week. You might not send workers on as many junkets for learning sessions - but make them do it online. Workers will become more efficient because the fear of job loss is something new to them. So government ends up keeping - hopefully - the best most efficient workers and yes some go bye bye. There comes a time where services are cut - but initially the inefficiencies are weeded out. This is by necessity. Talk to a local Board and they will tell you to a person that they had to find fat in the budget as it got smaller. To suggest there isn't excesses in government is just a silly idealistic notion. You can call these spending savings excesses if you want but to call them inefficiencies is more in line with Austrian thought.

Steve
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