Amazing how people still think the governnment can run anything better than private business, when almost every day we run across some example of how government can’t run anything efficiently.
One cute little thing I came across was from a friend in the Pentegon, a Colonel, no less. Told me that to solve a problem of an incompetent government employee, he had to hire another to do the job… not instead of the non-performer, but in addition to. Too hard – no, impossible – to fire anybody simply because they don’t do the job.
And Obama will pay for his massive health-care blob by cutting out waste? And nobody’s counting the millions of new govt. employees it’ll take to play like they’re cutting waste while the very presence of the new people hired to cut out waste will just be waste.
He still honestly believes his mouth will solve every problem. It sure moves people. Makes them believe the impossible. Problem is, believing doesn’t get the job done. Belief instilled in a moment of emotion doesn’t survive the hard facts to come.
It’s really back to Hillary Clinton. Or the Hillary truth when she said during the primary campaigns, “I’ve got 35-years experience. And what’s he got? A speech he made in 2002.”
But there are people who still believe the hype, despite mountains of evidence. Or maybe it’s a combination of bribery and fear that makes legislators believe enough to break the country?
A sage military guy, in an off-guard moment, not realizing he was on camera recently said: “Break the country? The country’s already broke.”
And who did that?
*NY Times
