$11M grant for Detroit job seekers only aided 2
Part of an $11 million grant intended to provide business attire to 400 low-income job-seekers instead helped only two people, an audit of the city's Department of Human Services has found.The audit, conducted by the city's auditor general for the period from July 2009 to September 2011, found the department failed to control the operations and finances of a boutique that was to provide the clothes.
You hard earned money hard at work in Detroit.
Sad.
If only we could increase taxes and government this would never happen again.
$27,500.00 per person? Who's work is that chunk of pork?
The other thing is this: ever notice that no matter how many times people isolate some crap spending and the politician who did it, that nothing ever happens to them? I wonder if there's a way to disincentivize such spending. Fines for each failed program? Jail time? How are they politicians immune from the law in this country???
The people don't care dude. You know how you penalize people for doing this? Angry mobs of people. The tax collectors used to be tarred and feathered. Get a couple hundred angry citizens to show up to someones house and I think the message will get clear.
Some one could give them 400k and provide a nice suit, shirts, belt and shoes for those 400 people. How on earth anyone thought that 11 million was needed is beyond me. Why not start a company with that money ad provide jobs for 50 people would be a much better use of money.
When I started, I had NO IDEA what I was doing and would have paid for a basic, inexpensive consult. Not doing the work for you, but providing a very basic platform to start from. Not everyone has the luxury of time of scraping this and other sites, going to student group meetings, and chatting up piles of industry pros for details on the ...basic... starting stuff.
That is a much better idea but I'm thinking even with improved resumes, clothing, interviewing skills etc there still prob aren't many jobs in Detroit for these clowns.
I have become so anti-govt, lately... I am not a Santorum guy but I love his proposed corporate tax code, something along the lines of 12.5% with an exemption for all manufacturing companies. Herm Cain's wasn't too bad either.
This is why a smaller government is ideal. Government takes money from us and then wastes it. This is just one of countless examples where hard earned dollars were pissed away. Imagine if government shrank and at the same time drove towards efficiency. This isn't even about cutting entitlements. Think of how much more could be done with the same amount of money.
Imagine if welfare was restructured, eliminating overhead and admin costs. More money could go to help people.
This is the core concept. Fiscal Republicans and Social Democrats should unite to reduce spending and at the same time increase help. Neither Repubs or Dems support this crap spending. It wastes money and doesn't help people.
Considering that the average family makes less than 50K, that $11MM could have supported 220 households and further stimulated the local economy.
Yet it was pissed away.
I have basically read this article twice now and I still cannot wrap my brain around where that fucking money went. Was Jon Corzine managing it? How are charges not being filed against someone here???
Corzine: ''I don't know where the money is''
I think a good start would be to give bonuses to heads of government departments that shrank their budgets YOY rather than growing them. The current reality is that if a government department doesn't spend all it's given, it's allotment goes down in succeeding years with no benefit to the organization. Clearly, some incentives need to be established, as budgets are growing and departments aren't achieving their basic objectives.
Also, curb public sector unions.
Politicians are essentially above the law. I'm convinced that if Pres. BO committed an actual violent crime that was not witnessed by anyone, they would sweep it under the rug and pretend it never happened b/c the big gov't tools we currently have believe that it's more important to give off the perception that everything's ok rather than actually holding someone accountable. I really believe that.
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