Re: roberta, through the streets

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hoofPrints <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> "A.Melon" wrote:
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> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > hoofPrints <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > hoofPrints wrote:
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> > > > "A.Melon" wrote:
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> > > > > Don't forget that for every dollar a government collects in taxes, about 80
> > > > > cents goes to finance the massive beurocracy required to run it. The people
> > > > > think their money is going to finance hospitals, roads, etc but in fact most 
> > > > > of
> > > > > it is paying for an army of civil servants.
> > > > >
> > > > > Alan
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> > > > Without those civil servants to police those in the private sector, we would 
> > > > have
> > > > less than adequate roads, public buildings etc.
> > > > Example:
> > > > The ex was a building inspector.
> > > > On more than one occasion the private sector switched their specs to 
> > > > substandard
> > > > and less costly material to save themselves money.
> > > > Hoof
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> > > Hello, I live in earthquake country.
> > > I don't want some cement bricks to shake loose on my grandchildren because some
> > > contractor decided to skimp on building materials. (  They wouldn't have gotten a
> > > permit if the materials  they switched which actually in the plans, in other 
> > > words,
> > > they wouldn't have gotten the job using those materials ) I also am not happy 
> > > with
> > > the idea that some overhead rode on the freeway, has the potential to smash my 
> > > car
> > > when it falls due to  a contractor falling behind time on the project and 
> > > skimping on
> > > building material.
> > > Hoof
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> > I agree that government services are neccesary, but I also know that come late
> > February all these roadworks will appear, that don't really involve doing any
> > neccesary work, but is a "use up the budget money before the end of the
> > financial year" excercise so that the allocated budget won't be seen as
> > unnecessarily high and be reduced the following year, and that all these
> > roadworks will mysteriously be finished in April. Then of course, about May the
> > real roadworks appear to repair the damage done to the roads by the winter
> > weather.
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> I don't know what your weather is like in the UK, but in this county, they fix the 
> roads
> with some kind of black tar stuff in the spring time.  they also will back fill 
> small holes
> left from trucks etc.  I was never able to coax them into throwing some of the black 
> stuff
> on my driveway apron, I am not in their budget.  I also can't get them to deliver a 
> load of
> road base to back fill holes in the drive.  They did repair the drain pipe that runs 
> under
> my drive after a vehicle,  not mine, drove over it and bent it, this is to improve 
> the
> drainage during the winter months.
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> > So that's just the transport department who can be seen to be doing this by
> > anybody who drives around with their eyes open. My wife used to tell me stories
> > of how the medical department would waste money in similar ways, and just about
> > every engineering department I ever worked with/for followed much the same
> > pattern. I think I can safely assume that every department of every
> > municipality in the world follows much the same procedure, all at the
> > taxpayer's expense.
> >
> > Alan
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> But what was the waste in the medical dept.  If you mean disposing of disposables, 
> throwing
> out outdated drugs etc. that is important to disease control and patient care.
> Hoof

It was not the medical procedures that she questioned. It was the auxillary 
services such as food and cleaning materials. You know...things that easily get 
misplaced such as loaves of bread, jars of coffee, toilet rolls, etc.