Posted on 07/20/2011 8:43:06 AM PDT by ponygirl
>>>Had to look it up. You are quite correct. For some obscure reason I was thinking both brothers were named Mario.<<<
You must be thinking of Larry’s brother Darryl and his other brother Darryl from Newhart. :)
True. However, waste, fraud, and corruption (as well as Unions) have been around a long time.
Back during the Depression, the WPA, The government funded DAM projects, the WH Admin were notified that there was a lot of money being spent, and not much getting done.
They wanted to send out teams to visit work sites (notifying the Contractor and the Union Leader ahead of time of their visit), and have them see what was wrong.
Two men decided that this would never work, so they took a convertible and just drove across the country, visiting these government funded worksites and work programs. They would just drive up, stop, get out and act like to lost rubes, or a couple of gawky tourists, asking questions of the workers about what they were building, etc.
This 'team' found millions and millions of dollars being lost to corruption and their information put a big clamp on most of the waste and fraud.
FOR BONUS POINTS, name one of these men. (Hint, He is one of the most well known people in the US History)
(sorry about the atrocious grammar. I just reread it and I reads as if English is my second language. Apparently I have a brain cloud.)
Ummm... I don't profess to be an expert on early Nintendo, but shouldnt that be 'his brother Luigi'?
the infowarrior
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Actual that’s Larry, Darryl and Darryl.
That's a riot! I totally missed the Super Mario reference. I thought "Peach" was a bit unusual, but hey, she's an exotic dancer, so it fits!
I think that is actually. . .
“Hi, I’m Larry; this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl.”
You got me. I can’t wait to see the answer.
Yeah, It’s been a loooong time...........
Luigi will be most disappointed. Mario always has all the fun.
Exactly. Most lower level bureaucratic positions in wealth redistribution offices are make-work jobs for inner city deadbeats who couldn't get a job waiting tables in a bar. Pretty much the same for the TAS jobs in the large metro airports. Chicago airport is a prime example.
Mrs. Prince of Space
She gets a lot of coin with her stripping over at the Koopa Lounge. Put 50 in her g-string and she’ll dance like she has a new life. But her boss, Mr. Bowser, is a slimy reptile who takes a good chunk of it to keep her in virtual captivity. I’d like to rescue her from that one of these days.
Is that Sean Penn on the left? ;o)
Harry Truman.
You think it’s bad? Well, let’s toss out an extra “bad” piece. You’ll love it. Even if you include the fraudsters, the amount of money that gets to welfare recipients, after the graft from the politicians and welfare office folks of every dollar we spend is $.135. Thirteen and a half cents on the dollar and we’re probably sending nearly half of it to fraudsters. If we cut out the overhead and made it cleaner of a program and dumped the fraudsters, we’d be close to eliminating our deficit.
I don’t agree with a lot of what Truman did, but there has always been a lot to like about the guy. Thanks.
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