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Originally Posted by manaboutown
I did and it was mind blowing how money was pointlessly peed away for nothing and many employees diddled away their time, counting the days until they could retire.
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I agree. I remember one agency I visited where they reviewed claims for welfare, and they actually had a motto, "WHEN IN DOUBT, SHELL IT OUT". This was no joke. The employees were instructed that, if a welfare applicant could not prove their eligibilty, the employee was required to give them the welfare benefit. After all, it is only taxpayer money, and we have plenty of it to give away. Many applicants knew this and were coached to pretend to not speak English.
Another U. S. Army office I inspected, had hundreds of new Dell desktop computers and printers stacked up in the hallways, and another hundred or so Dell laptops stored in a stock room. When I asked about these, I was told that it was a good way to spend their excess budget money at the end of the year, so they could get the same funding or more next year. This wasteful spending happens almost every year in many Federal Government offices.
I have no doubt that a Government health care system would be operated the same way.