Somehow we have come to think of our government the way somatoparaphrenia patients think about their arms or legs. It is not us. It just takes our money and wastes it on foolishness. It is as if the government has nothing to do with the people, and its expenditures are no more beneficial to its citizens than when a boatload of Somali pirates spend their bloody ransom on drugs and whores… Look, I’ve been arbitrating labor cases for 20 years. I know something about incompetence. I also know something about waste, fraud, nepotism, featherbedding, laziness, corruption and stupidity. And what I know is you don’t have to go to the public sector to find them. They are evident in malignant abundance in private enterprise as well. For every Department of Motor Vehicles, there is an equally infuriating private phone company. For every bloated public bureaucracy, there is an equally sclerotic corporate structure.

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by Barry Goldman, The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: March 6th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.