At least a third of your tax money for any of these noble programs goes to the government bureaucrats who supervise the program and shuffle the papers to report back to D.C.
Instead of the $8 TRILLION dollars we’ve spent on The Poor, beginning with LBJ’s “War on Poverty,” if the government had just sent The Poor one check every month and let them spend it where they want to, with no bureaucrats “supervising”, it would be a far more efficient system.
Yes, there would be fraud and abuse, but we have fraud and abuse today, along with a bloated bureaucracy that does a lousy job. The nanny state gets its power by taking our money and then doling it out to benefit its friends and punish its enemies, while employing an army of federal employees at much better wages and pensions than they would get in private enterprise.
Outstanding comment!!! Your description could not be more accurate. I’ve worked inside the belly of the beast on numerous management support contracts and your comment is spot on.
The bloated bureaucratic infrastructure is mainly there to support and expand itself.
Congrats on a most excellent post. Sounds like you’ve been there. ;)
Well said!