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RE: US government sending $1 billion in Africa aid while North Carolina is still reeling from a natural disaster

in Informationwar20 days ago

I wonder how much of it is used inefficiently. As a recipient of FEMA aid when i was in college they were actually handing out TOO MUCH free stuff to people when they had the money, then they handed out nothing after that. It's just so governmenty to spend spend spend then realize oh crap, we are spending too much, then cut off the tap entirely even though the goal wasn't actually accomplished.

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Government bureaucracy doesn't incentive efficiency at all. At the library, I had a set budget for programs to cover art supplies, refreshments and such. I was always frugal, and had a surplus at the end of the fiscal year, but used that to order ahead for planned programs the next year before the money went away. I think I was a rarity. Some programmers at other district libraries eyed my surplus greedily because they spent their funds as fast as they could months ago.