American Worker WageLife Hours/Days/Weeks/Months/Years/Lifetimes

[BigDaddyTX]

WageLife Hours (days/months/years/lifetimes)

We need to incorporate a new unit of measure into the government and social lexicon.

American Worker WageLife Hours (days, weeks, years, and lifetimes)

The people need to be shown the efficiency rate for every dollar collected as a tax. How much of that makes it into the hands of the actual designated beneficiary in a specific government tax or program after government overhead and expenses?

With this information, relate the nonsensical spending on programs into how many WageLife hours/days/weeks/years/lifetimes it would take for that money to be raised off the backs of the average American taxpayer.

In addition to describing the $50 million for condoms, it could be translated into an average American Taxpayer Wagelife of 300 lifetimes (or whatever it would be).

People just don't relate to numbers that are so far above any quantity that they have ever dealt with in their life. Help people relate. They need to hear a dollor amount of a particular program and easily relate that dollar amount to, say the entire amount of taxes paid during the lifetimes of all of their close friends and family and still coming up short...

Scale and perspective.

WageLife Hours/Days/Years/Lifetimes

[BigDaddyTX]

Unit of measure as it relates to dollars spent by the governemnt.

American Worker WageLife Hours

[econjack]

This would be an unnecessary distraction from the real issue at hand: politicians will buy anything WITH OUR MONEY that they think will GET THEM RE-ELECTED. Solution: Any new spending must include the source of funds to pay for it, either increase in taxes or reduced funding for some other project. With over 400 agencies in the Federal budget, there’s plenty of places from which to choose.

[Tell It Right]

Sounds great. If we find a way to calculate it, should it include the hours that the chronic work avoiders don't spend working?

Part of the problem with our message of govt waste is that it doesn't matter to the voters who think of life as money for nothing and chicks for free (typed in my best Dire Straits voice).

[BigDaddyTX]

I see it as a way for people to relate to, as you say, “OUR MONEY”

If an individual knows that they sent say $15,000 in federal taxes over a period of time, only to find out that $1.50 actually made it into the hands of an actual designated recipient of a fed government program, i think that would be a significant point for them to understand. Again, as it relates to “OUR MONEY”

“Our money” is dollars after operating expenses and overhead are taken out from your dollars that they took from you.

So the efficiency rate would be a huge issue to understand and then seeing how much time you personally spent and the sacrifices you made in order to get to the “OUR Money” figure would be mindblowing. It’s just a different perspective of what you are talking about that I feel is more relatable on an individual level.

[ansel12]

Before Newt Gingrich and 1994 the figures used for welfare was that about 72 cents of every dollar spent went to the government people in the offices and their condos, and pay, and pensions.