More Government Ineptitude

                                                                 
Do some of you ever wonder why I write these posts? It’s really not to criticize liberals and progressives, although it may seem the way, at least since BHO got in office. It’s really about information and education that you won’t get from today’s media, and if you don’t care about that, it’s about showing you the ineptitude of big government.

Since the “savior” took over in 2008 the federal government has taken control of about ¼ of the national economy, and some of that has been given to labor unions. If Obamacare craters in 2014, as I think it will, the government will have to bail out the health insurance industry and will than control an additional 1/6 of the economy.

During this recession if you live in the Washington, D.C. area, Maryland, Virginia, and environs, there was no recession. Jobs, housing, and construction abound. So it’s hard for anyone working for the federal government to understand what’s going on in the rest of the country. This is why big government is so destructive, its sole purpose is to spend money and there is no accountability as to results or return. The only concern is whether you’ve spent your budget, and if not, someone else will get that money next year.

Because results are not important management is very poor, even at very high levels. People never worry about demotions or termination, therefore, this leads to complacency. Just look at the meetings and conferences at the General Services Agency (GSA) that were highlighted this year. Millions of your dollars wasted and hours of time spent on workers traveling to exotic places and having fun, food, and booze at your expense. That type of culture would never be tolerated in the private sector.

An example of waste, fraud and mismanagement is the recent case of John Beal, a high level employee of the EPA who bilked taxpayers of $900,000 pretending to his co-workers and superiors that he was a secret agent for the CIA. He hardly showed up at the office and was sometimes missing in action for months at a time. He was recently sent to prison for 32 months and required to pay back the money. From 1989 until 2013, he was employed in the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR) which developed policy for air pollution and climate change. His duties included assisting the Head of OAR, Gina McCarthy, who is now Head of the EPA. Imagine what analysis and policy this guy was cooking up while he was goofing off most of the time, and Ms. McCarthy was writing accolades and commendations about his work to her superiors. How many CEO’s in the private sector would be able to keep their jobs and get promoted no less, after showing such incompetence and lack of engagement about what’s going on?

Now you can see how Kathleen Sebelius could run the HHS and Obamacare for 3 years and never have one direct one-on-one meeting with Obama and nobody thought it unusual. Total disengagement, no teamwork, no concern, no accountability, only selective communication. This is why government cannot run healthcare and why waste and fraud will run amuck in such a system as Obamacare, just as it now does in Medicare, or anything else it runs.

If you want more of this, keep voting Democratic and for big government.