NWFlyer 2 #1 April 9, 2009 QuoteTheir livelihood was being threatened, and they were tired of waiting for government help, so business owners and residents on Hawaii's Kauai island pulled together and completed a $4 million repair job to a state park -- for free. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/09/hawaii.volunteers.repair/index.html?eref=rss_topstories#cnnSTCPhoto I'm not sure if I'm more impressed with the ability of this community of business owners to come together to get this done, or more saddened by the inefficiency of the state ... assuming that the bridge repairs are certified as safe, the fact that a team of 30 volunteers could do in 8 days what the state thought would take 2 years is pretty impressive. Granted, the article does imply that quite a bit of that 2 year estimate would be time waiting for funding to be available."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
downwardspiral 0 #2 April 9, 2009 The perfect example of why less is more when it comes to government. And yet some people still want them in charge of our health care. www.FourWheelerHB.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #3 April 9, 2009 Damm those community organizers and their underhanded shenanigans!Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chuckakers 426 #4 April 9, 2009 QuoteDamm those community organizers and their underhanded shenanigans! Seems these folks are community "do-anizers". The only thing community organizers do is rally people to be victims.Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #5 April 9, 2009 Quote The perfect example of why less is more when it comes to government. And yet some people still want them in charge of our health care. As opposed to the current situation where we have insurance companies in charge of our health care."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,119 #6 April 9, 2009 >The only thing community organizers do is rally people to be victims. Apparently not, per the above story. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
downwardspiral 0 #7 April 9, 2009 Do you have medical insurance??www.FourWheelerHB.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #8 April 9, 2009 Well, there's $4 million of stimulus that they won't get. The local economy will be devastated.-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #9 April 9, 2009 Quote Quote The perfect example of why less is more when it comes to government. And yet some people still want them in charge of our health care. As opposed to the current situation where we have insurance companies in charge of our health care. Do you know what the biggest insurance company in the current US healthcare system is? Hint: They're so big that they basically set all the reimbursement rates and the rest of the insurance companies (and health care providers) basically have to go along with what they say.-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AdamLanes 1 #10 April 10, 2009 Bureaucracy and the state are inherently inefficient. I can virtually guarantee that either some bureaucrat or union member will find something wrong with this structure, whether or not it is safe and sound. Bureaucrats and unions will see this as a direct threat to their power and cozy positions of not having to compete in a fair market. I have had a job working for the government and others working in a union, and they both had the tendency to make the work drawn out and overly expensive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrewEckhardt 0 #11 April 10, 2009 Quote Do you know what the biggest insurance company in the current US healthcare system is? The Federal Government, with Medicare and Medicaid covering over 80 million people in total. #2 seems to be Wellpoint which claims to be the largest with 1 in 9 Americans covered for a total of just 34 million, mostly through the Blue Cross/Blue Shield branding. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #12 April 10, 2009 QuoteQuote Do you know what the biggest insurance company in the current US healthcare system is? The Federal Government, with Medicare and Medicaid covering over 80 million people in total. So you mean that our current system, where the evil insurance companies are defrauding us all, is actually a system where the government is defrauding us all? Clearly, we need socialized medicine! If we could just make the biggest of the evil insurers even bigger, and give it legally enforced monopoly power (or rather, even more than it has now), that will surely fix everything. A little causes problems? Surely more will fix it! I think that's the same strategy our government has for borrowing, too, isn't it?-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
24fps 1 #13 April 12, 2009 I used to work for a contract company in the Deschutes National Forest in Bend, Oregon. My first season there it took a forest service employee the entire summer to build an insulated pump house for a water system one of the lakes. He "worked" on it at least 4 days a week. The next season my boss and I built one just like it in a week. Granted we did have 2 guys working on it.It is amazing how much more efficient the private sector is! something funny and unique Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
