Sunday, August 29, 2010

The Failure of Major Federal Programs: Responsibility And Stewardship - Part 3

Second part of the answer: 95% of the problem with these programs is how they were and are still being mismanaged. Even decades(!) after they became problems AND decades after Congress promised to fix them. In fact, the programs are ALL being GROSSLY mismanaged. Any manager mismanaging something this badly in the private sector would be out of a job in a heartbeat and would have trouble finding anyone else to hire him.

The government ALWAYS mismanages welfare programs. It is by far the mismanagement that has led to the problems they all have now or soon will have. Who’s most responsible for the mismanagement? Democrats for lots of reasons. They created them so they have some ownership (stewardship) to make sure the programs do what was intended without bankrupting the system. After all, according to Democrats(!), they were the ones with expertise enough to create them in the first place. Who better then to keep them in line? Do you think that the other political party has responsibility to properly manage a program they opposed in the first place? That makes no sense.

Who had the most opportunity to manage the programs and fix them once broken? Democrats have held a veto-proof majority in one or both houses for 30 of the past 60 years while Republicans have had a veto-proof majority in either house exactly ZERO times! Democrats had the means, opportunity and primary responsibility to create AND manage them properly. Based on what’s actually happening, how would you say that’s working out so far? And we just let them create the biggest and most expensive welfare program of all time.

(Part 4, the last part of this serious coming in a couple of days.)

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