2024 Presidential Election

Over 2M people work for the government I'm not crapping on all of them. If you have made a career out of the bloated inefficient version we have now such that you are up for appointed post it's a safer bet you are the bureaucrat that is the problem than the guy/gal giving a school a tour at a national park. Bureaucracies grow or die. None of ours are dying so if you spent your career in govt and reach those inner circles you don't know how to fix problems you know how to grow bureaucracies.

So what are the bloated inefficient jobs and what are the real ones?
 
This is BS. The government does not suck at everything it does. Are there problems, of course. But, to claim that anyone who has been in government by definition did a bad job is sheer stupidity.
I have no reason to not believe you are a good doctor and based on reading your words for over a decade I believe you would approach each patient with your best effort.......no one points to the VA as model of efficiency. I'll bet there are at least 2 admins for every doc associated with the VA.

So Dr. Steross good.......person who has been an admin at the VA for 30 years and crawled up through a maze of red tape probably isn't the one to turn it around seeing as how they have made a career out of the problems.
 
deep space nine facepalm GIF

We are $36T in debt and debt grows by a $1T now ~ every 100 days….SS is estimated to need a cut in 7 years due to incredible mismanagement….and we have people shocked and/or concerned that people call government inefficient.
 
Do you really think the inefficiencies at the VA is because of employees that have been there a long time?
Yes and no......but if it's all you know or if you thrive to the point you move to the top of an inefficient org you probably aren't the fix
 
So what are the bloated inefficient jobs and what are the real ones?
The issue I've seen isn't necessarily related to the people. It's been related to required beaurocratic paperwork. The amount of paperwork that is required is often WAY more time consuming than necessary. If that was cut then you could start reducing manpower but simply cutting people because they don't get enough done will end poorly unless the often redundant paperwork is streamlined.

This is what has driven growing civilian workforce in at least some instances. Offices/departments create new reporting, contracting, security, etc paperwork for some reason that requires more people to complete it all.
 
I have no reason to not believe you are a good doctor and based on reading your words for over a decade I believe you would approach each patient with your best effort.......no one points to the VA as model of efficiency. I'll bet there are at least 2 admins for every doc associated with the VA.

So Dr. Steross good.......person who has been an admin at the VA for 30 years and crawled up through a maze of red tape probably isn't the one to turn it around seeing as how they have made a career out of the problems.
Let’s solve it like they are planning to do in the latest election. Throw out anyone with experience, and replace them with incompetent boobs! You’ll damned sure see a change but in my opinion it won’t be better. But put in a bunch of contrarians in high level positions and Donny can be loud and proud. Burn it all down says the anarchist. Nothing is worth saving huh?
 
Thinking with a business only mindset is the very definition of short term thinking.
For some public companies this is potentially true. Certainly there are some short-term decisions to drive stock price. But for most growing companies long-term strategic planning is inherent.

Short term thinking is the exact reason why the government is running poorly. Consistency and long term planning does not get you votes anymore.
This might be the most accurate two sentences posted on this board this year.
 

you can't make this $h!t up...well, parts of it you can...

An American woman whose case was one of the sparks behind a baseless claims about Haitian immigrants has been sentenced to a year in prison for animal cruelty.

Authorities said that Allexis Ferrell, 27, attacked a cat in Canton, Ohio.

Ferrell is a US citizen and the incident happened about 170 miles (270km) away from a large Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio.

Her case was one of several incidents cited online, which fed into rumours about immigrant eating pets. The stories were eventually repeated by President-elect Donald Trump and his vice-presidential running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance.
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On 16 August, Canton police responded to a report of a woman smashing a cat’s head with her foot and eating the animal.
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In several posts online, Ferrell was falsely described as an immigrant.

However, Canton Police told the BBC that they had "not dealt with any complaints of Haitian immigrants at all."

Springfield police also denied the rumours, saying at the time: “There have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.”

Springfield is a city of about 60,000 people in south-west Ohio, where 12,000 to 20,000 Haitian immigrants have settled in recent years, mostly drawn by work in local factories.

Rumours about eating pets circulated in the city earlier this year, before the Canton incident. An unrelated post on Reddit appeared to show a man carrying a dead bird in Columbus, Ohio, and a Facebook message mentioning the rumours was posted on a Springfield crime board.

These disparate stories were grafted together by anti-immigrant and pro-Trump influencers online, forging an unsubstantiated rumour later repeated by Vance online – that foreigners were catching and consuming pets in Springfield.

During the presidential debate in September, Trump said: "In Springfield, they are eating the dogs. The people that came in, they are eating the cats.”

Vance later told CNN that the pet-eating stories were based on “first-hand account of my constituents” but did not provide further details.

The BBC has contacted Vance’s office.

"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do," he told CNN.
 
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