Ebola Outbreak (34 Viewers)
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True, but then you are more likely to have termites.
The point is there is no incentive for any government agency to actually do a good job since, at least in our government, there is little oversight. Have you ever heard of the idiom, "good enough for government work?" Why do the best job when you can simply do the minimum and receive the same payout?
Of cousre there are other incentives to disease control, but that doesn't mean the CDC somehow manages to hire properly. Most of the time these folks in government obtain their jobs through knowing someone, sucking up to someone, or helping to fund someone. So, our system not only lacks oversight, but also any incentive to look out for anybody but yourself and possibly your constituents.
It will be a form of comforting the cancer patients. Today their toxic assets are worth millions if you follow one set of accounting rules, but once the cash flow runs out, it'll be worth nothing. But by that time, they'll be dead, so...
That's how it should work. But it doesn't.
The point is there is no incentive for any government agency to actually do a good job since, at least in our government, there is little oversight. Have you ever heard of the idiom, "good enough for government work?" Why do the best job when you can simply do the minimum and receive the same payout?
Of cousre there are other incentives to disease control, but that doesn't mean the CDC somehow manages to hire properly. Most of the time these folks in government obtain their jobs through knowing someone, sucking up to someone, or helping to fund someone. So, our system not only lacks oversight, but also any incentive to look out for anybody but yourself and possibly your constituents.
It will be a form of comforting the cancer patients. Today their toxic assets are worth millions if you follow one set of accounting rules, but once the cash flow runs out, it'll be worth nothing. But by that time, they'll be dead, so...
That's how it should work. But it doesn't.
We might as well. 
10.000 cases a week? :wth:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/who-new-ebola-cases-world-health-organisation
10.000 cases a week? :wth:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/who-new-ebola-cases-world-health-organisation
We might as well.
10.000 cases a week? :wth:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/who-new-ebola-cases-world-health-organisation
10.000 cases a week? :wth:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/14/who-new-ebola-cases-world-health-organisation
The Ebola Czar is proof in the pudding the current government is simply the worst ever. No infectious disease experience whatsoever, all big government rent-seeking experience. Plus they didn't fire the guys in charge of outbreaks at the CDC.
So here we go, Ocelot, Maddy, Soren, et cetera. I'd love to see you defend this one. But you can't, so stick to your own fucking government, and please don't ever come here.
So here we go, Ocelot, Maddy, Soren, et cetera. I'd love to see you defend this one. But you can't, so stick to your own fucking government, and please don't ever come here.