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12-10-2007, 11:38 AM | #1 | |
Doctor Wtf
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Brilliant Scam
So, you think governments are necessarily loss-making, inefficient bureaucracies, right?
Mostly, but not always, as demonstrated by this wonderful bit of private sector/public sector entrepreneurialism: Quote:
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12-10-2007, 12:28 PM | #2 |
barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
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Ahhh human ingenuity is a wonderful thing - gotta give 'em credit. Its pretty ballsy
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12-10-2007, 12:37 PM | #3 |
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i think the important point here is being missed. this guy started providing a service that people thought the government should be providing. he hired people and apparently ran it in a semi-legit manner - although it seems not everyone was happy with their pay. but the point is that he was actually able to provide government services for a reasonable fee AND turn a profit.
Why can't anyone that really works for the government figure out how to do the same? if the agency he was impersonating didn't turn the same type of profit he was, the director should be fired and he should step into the position.
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12-10-2007, 02:51 PM | #4 |
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He probably wasn't paying into an employee pension fund or passing over taxes he had deducted from employees.
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12-10-2007, 04:52 PM | #5 | |
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The latter seems likely here, as privatized birth and death certificates don't seem like a good idea, but if he was able to turn a profit there should be no excuse for the government not opening a legit branch in that location.
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12-10-2007, 05:25 PM | #6 |
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I think the US Postal Service is required to be profitable.
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12-10-2007, 05:39 PM | #7 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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They're supposed to break even, not make a profit. And they are more in the "profit harms the mission" camp.
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