Theft at the Public Till
on the receiving end of a forbidden gift. Instead the thefts occur because no one is articulating that they should not occur. Indeed the system is set up to encourage them. The thefts are hard to find:
• Subsidies to those that do not need them. • Overpayments. • Hiring of less than qualified people/firms/teams. • Missed opportunities.
The excuses are usually symbolic -- "affirmative action," but this is a "sacred cow," why "to touch this program means you must be willing to touch this other" program, agency, whatever. The reality is that the political system is so dependent upon the information, campaign funding, and mobilization offered by those who profit from the thievery that it seems helpless to resist. Complexity has crippled us. The thieves ride herd over our inability to ferret them out. To stop one abuse is to invite two others. Our government needs help -- and it needs a new way of looking at the world.
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