This week, I discovered that in the language department we continue to convene a class in Portugese even though there is only one student. This week, we heard the Post Office threaten to reduce mail delivery to five days per week. This week, we heard the President talk about how more money in a government entity will increase performance. Where has that ever worked?
Whenever there are problems in our life, our "leaders" claim that it's time for more government control over our lives. People with no expertise therein whatsoever claim clairevoyance and clout sufficient to solve problems in our lives even while those same problems persist and grow in their own. So, we pay more for school and postage, and somehow that does nothing to alleviate the budgetary hemmorhage.
During my brief period in industry, I worked in R&D. Since it was a for profit company, our R&D had deadlines to meet. You had to show progress or they cut off the project. I think the R&D department had the highest job risk. Bring back food or be food yourself.
Many government agencies run over budget and under performance as the rule. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Postal Service, AMTRAK, the Park Service, ad infinitum, spend money they do not have to meet their obligations and then come back and beg for more. Americans do not protest taxes per se. They protest the waste of their money by inefficient and ineffective bureaucracies. If they're not doing their job or we no longer need them, fire them too.
I have asked our governor to do so, with the knowledge that my job might be ended or that I might invite backlash and get the ax. It is always the right time to do the right thing.
Only one bureaucracy does its job on budget. The Department of Defense. I know a lot of you may not like the military, but it is the only part of the government that accomplishes its objectives on time and on budget. When they need more money, it's because the Congress historically and the President more recently sent them to war, and war is never something for which you can accurately budget. Our military exists to kill enemy soldiers and break their stuff. They do a smashing job, pardon the pun.
Any part of any government agency that cannot deliver on its mission and keep to budget deserves to follow the path of darwin. I am amazed that socialists advocate darwinism in every part of life except for government. Only the departments that are fiscally fit should survive. That doesn't leave many. Sunset all government programs that do not turn a yield. They say we should relax the war on drugs because it doesn't net results, yet they never say we should relax other government endeavors that do not net results and never will.
Come in under budget and on time, or we'll right you up as your bosses, just like I am and would be in a similar situation for failure to do my job.
Remember that government was created by "We the People". You work for us. Your job depends on us. When the American people awaken to this, most of you will lose forever the comfort of your plush thrones, and that will be a great day indeed.
Whenever there are problems in our life, our "leaders" claim that it's time for more government control over our lives. People with no expertise therein whatsoever claim clairevoyance and clout sufficient to solve problems in our lives even while those same problems persist and grow in their own. So, we pay more for school and postage, and somehow that does nothing to alleviate the budgetary hemmorhage.
During my brief period in industry, I worked in R&D. Since it was a for profit company, our R&D had deadlines to meet. You had to show progress or they cut off the project. I think the R&D department had the highest job risk. Bring back food or be food yourself.
Many government agencies run over budget and under performance as the rule. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Postal Service, AMTRAK, the Park Service, ad infinitum, spend money they do not have to meet their obligations and then come back and beg for more. Americans do not protest taxes per se. They protest the waste of their money by inefficient and ineffective bureaucracies. If they're not doing their job or we no longer need them, fire them too.
I have asked our governor to do so, with the knowledge that my job might be ended or that I might invite backlash and get the ax. It is always the right time to do the right thing.
Only one bureaucracy does its job on budget. The Department of Defense. I know a lot of you may not like the military, but it is the only part of the government that accomplishes its objectives on time and on budget. When they need more money, it's because the Congress historically and the President more recently sent them to war, and war is never something for which you can accurately budget. Our military exists to kill enemy soldiers and break their stuff. They do a smashing job, pardon the pun.
Any part of any government agency that cannot deliver on its mission and keep to budget deserves to follow the path of darwin. I am amazed that socialists advocate darwinism in every part of life except for government. Only the departments that are fiscally fit should survive. That doesn't leave many. Sunset all government programs that do not turn a yield. They say we should relax the war on drugs because it doesn't net results, yet they never say we should relax other government endeavors that do not net results and never will.
Come in under budget and on time, or we'll right you up as your bosses, just like I am and would be in a similar situation for failure to do my job.
Remember that government was created by "We the People". You work for us. Your job depends on us. When the American people awaken to this, most of you will lose forever the comfort of your plush thrones, and that will be a great day indeed.
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