Nominees for Top 5 Worst Government Services

Capitol Confidential ^ | 7/10/2010 | Jarrett Skorup

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What are the worst government programs?

To qualify for an award the nominee must be government run, backed or financed, and fail a "Yellow Book" test, meaning that if a private company found in the Yellow Pages can do the work, the government should get out.

The nominees are, in reverse order: Veterans Hospitals, Post Office, General Motors, Public Schools and Freddie Mae/Fannie Mac

To see why, please click the article.

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From the article: "The UAW is the AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people."

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From the article: “The UAW is the AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as ‘workers’ (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.”

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You forgot the “Bureau of Indian Affairs”. They have an unblemished record of 150 years of massive graft, nepotism and incompetence.

Even General George Custer hated them.