December 26, 2005

Now this is how to be a bureaucrat

The UN spent about $590 million of tsunami relief. Up to one third of that was on overhead: administration, staff, etc.

The sheer scale of the bureaucratic incompatence - or should we say compatence, for what else to bureaucracies exist for except to perpetuate their own existence? - is boggling. They managed to swindle about $200 million in donated funds.

No wonder lefties have such a benighted economic perspective: they spend their lives living of the largesse of others. Can't really think of a better way of instilling the idea that you don't have to work for a living.

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Posted by ryan at December 26, 2005 04:06 PM | TrackBack
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this UN sounds a lot like the bush adminstration. the most bloated bureaucracy ever. with more money borrowed ($1.05 trillion) from foreign governments and banks since taking office than all the other presidents combined. he mortagaged our country to the chinese and is spying on americans citizens and it is costing us a fortune and the overhead is growing because he keeps having to pay off journalists in order to get them to shut up about all the corruption and sell the bullshit. armstrong williams and bush's manwhore jeff gannon were just the tip of the iceburg. quick somebody give him a blowjob (gannon, open up!) so we can impeach the lying sack of shit. aolout!

Posted by: Counterpoint at December 26, 2005 05:19 PM

Pay attention class. What we have here is a classic example of the run-on sentence. Also take note of the capitalization scheme. There isn't any. One final point of interest: "aolout", a possible corruption of "AOL out". If this is indeed the author's intent, it would seem that AOL has indeed made is presence known.

The Bush administration may well be fiscally profligate, but this complaint is not relevant here. What the administration is guilty of isn't waste and inefficiency, as the UN has repeatedly proven to be, but promiscuous and intemperate spending. There's a difference. The former involves blowing a third of your budget on overhead. The Federal government spends remarkably little on overhead, as governments go. Financial irresponsibility as such isn't impeachable. Neither, as it turns out, is the aforementioned surveillence, as the courts seem to have upheld monitering communications of Americans with foreign citizens. The only charve you've got left is that of just being a schmuck, which just isn't illegal, something for which you, my friend, should thank your lucky stars.

When you've got an argument of some kind, perhaps a relevant or otherwise significant complaint, something that goes beyond your current AOL-ish, juvenile, incoherent talking-points, and - is it too much to ask? - an actual response to something I've posted, I'd welcome the discourse. Until next time then, you keep sending in your comments, and I'll keep making fun of your grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Posted by: ryan at December 26, 2005 06:22 PM

Bra-vo, Ryan!

Posted by: jCave at December 26, 2005 06:42 PM

Pay attention class. What we have here is someone who knows not how to spell simple words such as incompetence & competence. Let's make fun of him, too.

Posted by: sandy at December 26, 2005 07:18 PM

No Walter you're not wrong, you're just an asshole.

Posted by: heyguy at December 26, 2005 07:41 PM

Lefties, sound off! Cue blatant ignoring of stated arguments followed by ad hominem abusives and tu quoques disguised as clever repartee. You may not be able to tell the difference, but that doesn't mean that I can't, and if you think I'm above pointing that out, you haven't been reading this site long enough.

I may have roundly abused my earlier commentor, but you will notice that unlike yourselves, sandy and Anonymous Coward, I did take the time to address what fragment of an argument he bothered to present. In that sense, he's way ahead of either of you in that he at least had freaking content that wasn't simple name-calling. Are you even trying? And as for being the term in question... "sticks and stones" and so-forth.

Posted by: ryan at December 26, 2005 08:36 PM

I'm not even that political, I didn't say you were wrong. You're just kind of a dick.

Posted by: heyguy at December 26, 2005 09:02 PM

Well okay then.

Posted by: ryan at December 26, 2005 09:04 PM

Glad we established that. I'd been wondering.

Posted by: mesh at December 27, 2005 03:16 PM
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