jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

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sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Here's an interesting fact: The Department of Indian Affairs has one government employee for every 120 Native Americans. The budget to operate the department is greater than the money that goes to improve the lives of the Native Americans which have the highest rate of social and economic ills of any other group for its size.

The government does not solve problems...it is the problem.

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

Sounds about par for the course.

ski Loc: West Coast, USA

Excellent.... The same goes for our elected officials.....

Michael S

How true that is.

gpc

And there's the old Yankee saying:

"If it aint broke, don't fix it."

And the government saying:

"If it aint broke, fix it til it is."

Moondoggie Loc: Southern California

Yep, sound about right.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

And, the beatings will continue until morale improves!

clickety

Unfortunately this sounds all too familiar.

tommystrat Loc: Bigfork, Montana

We're from the government...we're here to help...

gpc

According to Ronald Reagan these are the scariest words in the English language.

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

So very true. I worked for the government for a total of 26 years and a few months. The government has set itself up so that if a section of the government does not spend all of its allotted budget for a fiscal year, its budget for the next year will be decreased. Fact. On one particular occasion I was the acting head of a department at the end of a fiscal year and was told to make a list of things the department could use. I asked how much I could send and the answer surprised me, over $200,000.00. I was told this at a private non-governmental gathering on a Saturday and I was to submit the list by 8:00 AM on Monday. The fiscal year was to end in less than two weeks.

The government does not allow money from one fiscal year to be held over to the next fiscal year.

oregon don

I was in a artillery unit in Korea. I got there in may of 61. The unit took their annual test and whipped every one, we were the best in battery best in division therefore best in Korea.
As a result we got on a amphibious practice lot of work water proofing every thing. had to practice going down the nets. it was a great deal.

A few months later our CO was rotated, he was great officer. he got replaced by a two time loser!! an officer that was passed up for promotion twice, worried about getting bounced out of the army. Guessed he had a buddy in the pentagon that got him that no worry assignment. in two months our morale was in the gutter.

when we went into the field we would go into a field formation and all the sgts and officers would be on our backs "DO SOME THING"
I got so that I would get a telephone and a machine gun and get to the perimeter and set up defence. always the battalion CO would come by and challenge me he always came by at 12:15 as the daily pass word changed. I challenged him and he did not know the pass word and he asked his driver, he did not know either. so I told them to put their hands on the hood of their jeep.
Now the battery could not hear a thing but could see the col and Sgt with their hands on the jeep, so I called it in and my buddy was the battery driver for the CO, he answered the Phone and said what the hell are you doing, I replied the Col don't know the password,He peplied that our CO was going around screaming he was going to court marshal me, I said F HIM so the first Sgt came out and I just told him battalion CO don't know the pass word so he went out and talked to him then came back and told me to let him through.
I never hear another word about it guess the first Sgt talked him down seeing as if I was asleep I would still be in that Kansas prison.
non of us were ever told how to handle that kind of situation.
thought it was the end of the situation, when I got shipped back to the states I got to Kimpo where we boarded the ship, I saw a bunch of guys from my basic platoon. I was processing and my name was called out. they told me I had to go back to division, I asked who said that, We don't know, but I do I was the only one sent back the rest of my basic unit got out of the army a week before me, I have hope I could run into that two time loser

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

I worked for a company for close to 40 years that was a big promoter of TQM. It really does work and there are a lot of large US companies that also promote it. The hardest people to get on board to actually make it work are the so called middle management people. Too many of them got to where they were by rising to their highest level of incompetence and they weren't about to give up any so called authority or imagined power for the benefit of the company.
It's kind of amazing, or not, how many skeptics and neigh sayers there really are out there.

mundy-F2 Loc: Chicago suburban area

Learning continues to be a major problem in firms.
Mundy