So your solution is to place all the tasks in the hands of the
government and not in the hands of private enterprise on the basis that
the taxpayers funding govt employees will insure that things done for
you efficiently and in a timely manner. Gotta find out what you are
smoking. I have worked for the govt and been a consultant to the govt
and have many friends who are consultants to the govt now. From my
experience of the govt employees there are some who are fantastic and
really dedicated to doing the best job possible. I was one of those in
my time. The vast majority don't give a damn about the public at
all. Check the run around you get trying to find what you need to know
to deal with govt forms and govt laws. You need to hire a lawyer who
knows enough about the situation to get to the right person to get
anything done and this is not cheap. And then you have to wait for
them to get the work done.
Even worse when you deal with those who are in charge of statistics.
In the first place most of the employees have not a clue about
statistics. Then you find that they take whatever is handed to them and
assume it is right and come out with their projections based on that.
In one case that I am very familiar with since my best friend is a
consultant to SSA in Baltimore is the annual statistics that the
actuarial work is based on. He was asked to take the current year's
figures and compare it to prior years. When he started doing the
comparison it was not even comparable. The earlier statistics from
2007 were based on one set of calculations while 2008 and 2009 were
based on a different set each year. When you compared them, the whole
basis of comparison was skewed and there was no common basis at all.
The analysts never even asked how the figures were derived and whether
they were even comparable. That is your federal govt in action. No
wonder they went to private companies. The only way to get anything
that is worth looking at.
studio wrote:
Take, for instance, Barry R. McCaffrey, retired four-star army
general, military analyst for the media, defense industry consultant,
president of his own consulting firm, part-time professor, and expert,
whose advice on the conduct of the post-9/11 U.S. wars was sought by
the George W. Bush administration and Congress.
Crucial to McCaffrey’s success in these roles was the special access
afforded him by the Pentagon and associates still in the military.
This included special trips to war zones arranged specifically for
him.
http://www.alternet.org/books/145533/shadow_elite:_how_the_world%27s_new_power_brokers_are_upending_our_democracy
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Who do they work for?
Answer: it's not the American people that's for sure.
Smaller government advocates don't realize that government just
outsources the issues to private companies that are taxpayer funded
and more beholden to shareholders making a profit, than We The People
being informed and protected.
The American People are simply not their main interest. Profit
is...and they aren't about to share it with you.
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