Our government, which could not run the Post Office (a virtual monopoly) at a profit is at it again. Our government, which wasted $ 687 million on the stimulus package, the money went not to shovel-ready jobs, but to shore up union pension funds for state workers.
Our government, which wasted $500-plus million on Solyndra,which went bankrupt before it got started; we still own the buildings, which are vacant even now.
Our government, which has made a terrible mess of the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). Our government, which is now trying to explain the Veteran Administration scandal; if we can’t run this system how will we manage universal health care?
Our government hired a British firm, Serco, for $1.2 billion to handle the paper applications for Obamacare. Since 99.9 percent of these applications are done online, this firm has virtually nothing to do.
Several hundred employees in St. Louis, Missouri and Rodgers, Arkansas are reading books, playing computer games and working crosswords on our tax dollars.
It’s just more proof that the inmates are running the asylum.
Jeff Crocker
Lake Stevens
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