What, in a nation of 300 million, less than .1% error occurred?
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!
So uh, how is this even a problem, considering a dead person can't cash their check... and frankly, I think people in prison could use some money. It might help some poor person who is imprisoned for smoking weed not get raped for a night or two.
Ginx usually only whines or gets outraged when it's a private company that does something. Even when he agrees that the state has done something wrong, it doesn't seem to make him very angry (cops can kill and beat people on a daily basis, and Ginx will bring up someone getting merely harassed by a private security guard at a mall as a counter example).
The interesting part of this: half the erroneous checks were returned. What happened to the other half? Were they cashed? If not then no damage was done. Prisoners are on a list but wether they are in a state or a federal prison the list is not the same. As for dead people the more recent ones could have still been in the processing stage from one agency to the next and up to the federal level. many steps to climb. When all considered the stupidity, the real one, would be a tiny fraction of 1%...but nice fodder for Tea Partyers and assorted rightists.
There are no "lengths" I'm going to and I'm not "defending" anything. Considering there are 300 million Americans, I'm not shocked. In the average pharmacy, every single week, a person or two gets the wrong prescription. This usually works out to over 99.9% accuracy, but still... if that one person sues, the pharmacy is in big trouble. Much bigger stakes, still human error, it happens. What are you expecting, perfection?
If you could do anything to 99.9% efficieny, you would be successful at whatever it was you were doing.
Have you ever worked for a company that never made a mistake? That never put a name card out at a company party for someone who was fired months ago? I'm just curious what frame of reference you guys have, because based on your shoddy blog posts and error ridden bullshit, I have to assume you aren't the mega-efficient pinnachles of perfection you demand from... a government you didn't even elect, because you're Canadian.
I'll be over here, in reality, whenever you guys are done whining about a <.1% error. I'll be waiting.
I understand "on the balance" it doesn't come off as problematic
But it is. It's wasteful. A corporation's waste is made with money it creates, the government with tax dollars you work for and they take.
I don't know if you read my 'Daycare Updates." Companies most certainly do make errors as I just went through. BUT, I was COMPENSATED and the person was disciplined immediately. Conversely, according to some friends in government (Alberta) they do take this very seriously and apparently track money diligently.
Alberta is right-wing country - just saying.
The bottom line is the psychological environment has changed. Americans, I don't care if their TPiers or not, are scrutinizing spending and stories of this sort will get magnified.
Paul, you're right it's fodder for the rightists but it shouldn't be. Any concerned citizen should be aware of these errors. If it was rectified or whatever move on but it's good it's a matter of public record. I really didn't look at it from a political perspective but a competence one.
I WISH Canadians would be more vigilant. Here in Quebec (and I know the Treasury of the Liberal Party of Canada and I can say this with some degree of confidence as well as some really well placed analysts) it's literally a crime how they waste and steal tax dollars for nefarious projects.
We can try and defer or deny or use it as a wedge all we want to divide political parties, but in reality it's A COLLECTIVE PROBLEM AND cause for shame.
All I ask are some inquiries and some meaningful debates into what's being said and what's known. I don't want us to get all silly whenever a paper challenges it.
Just my opinion.
Think of it, a few hundred here or there can literally mean the difference betwen succeeding and failing in business.
What, in a nation of 300 million, less than .1% error occurred?
ReplyDeleteRABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!!
So uh, how is this even a problem, considering a dead person can't cash their check... and frankly, I think people in prison could use some money. It might help some poor person who is imprisoned for smoking weed not get raped for a night or two.
The lengths you go in defending inefficiency is staggering.
ReplyDeleteIt really is not the issue "1%" got the money - it's that they got it at all. Did you read the article?
How in the world can you possibly justify it?
Sometimes you're too funny.
"how is this even a problem, considering a dead person can't cash their check"
ReplyDeleteOne thing is for sure, I'd never hire you to do my book keeping.
Ginx usually only whines or gets outraged when it's a private company that does something. Even when he agrees that the state has done something wrong, it doesn't seem to make him very angry (cops can kill and beat people on a daily basis, and Ginx will bring up someone getting merely harassed by a private security guard at a mall as a counter example).
ReplyDeleteQuite amazing, really.
The interesting part of this: half the erroneous checks were returned. What happened to the other half? Were they cashed? If not then no damage was done.
ReplyDeletePrisoners are on a list but wether they are in a state or a federal prison the list is not the same. As for dead people the more recent ones could have still been in the processing stage from one agency to the next and up to the federal level. many steps to climb.
When all considered the stupidity, the real one, would be a tiny fraction of 1%...but nice fodder for Tea Partyers and assorted rightists.
You guys need a seriousectomy, bad.
ReplyDeleteThere are no "lengths" I'm going to and I'm not "defending" anything. Considering there are 300 million Americans, I'm not shocked. In the average pharmacy, every single week, a person or two gets the wrong prescription. This usually works out to over 99.9% accuracy, but still... if that one person sues, the pharmacy is in big trouble. Much bigger stakes, still human error, it happens. What are you expecting, perfection?
If you could do anything to 99.9% efficieny, you would be successful at whatever it was you were doing.
Have you ever worked for a company that never made a mistake? That never put a name card out at a company party for someone who was fired months ago? I'm just curious what frame of reference you guys have, because based on your shoddy blog posts and error ridden bullshit, I have to assume you aren't the mega-efficient pinnachles of perfection you demand from... a government you didn't even elect, because you're Canadian.
I'll be over here, in reality, whenever you guys are done whining about a <.1% error. I'll be waiting.
Why didn't you say so in the first place, Brett?
ReplyDeleteI understand "on the balance" it doesn't come off as problematic
But it is. It's wasteful. A corporation's waste is made with money it creates, the government with tax dollars you work for and they take.
I don't know if you read my 'Daycare Updates." Companies most certainly do make errors as I just went through. BUT, I was COMPENSATED and the person was disciplined immediately. Conversely, according to some friends in government (Alberta) they do take this very seriously and apparently track money diligently.
Alberta is right-wing country - just saying.
The bottom line is the psychological environment has changed. Americans, I don't care if their TPiers or not, are scrutinizing spending and stories of this sort will get magnified.
Paul, you're right it's fodder for the rightists but it shouldn't be. Any concerned citizen should be aware of these errors. If it was rectified or whatever move on but it's good it's a matter of public record. I really didn't look at it from a political perspective but a competence one.
I WISH Canadians would be more vigilant. Here in Quebec (and I know the Treasury of the Liberal Party of Canada and I can say this with some degree of confidence as well as some really well placed analysts) it's literally a crime how they waste and steal tax dollars for nefarious projects.
We can try and defer or deny or use it as a wedge all we want to divide political parties, but in reality it's A COLLECTIVE PROBLEM AND cause for shame.
All I ask are some inquiries and some meaningful debates into what's being said and what's known. I don't want us to get all silly whenever a paper challenges it.
Just my opinion.
Think of it, a few hundred here or there can literally mean the difference betwen succeeding and failing in business.
"because based on your shoddy blog posts and error ridden bullshit."
ReplyDeleteThis was so comical and surreal on so many levels I just decided rather than put too much effort into it it was more productive to go make pancakes.
Bret, seriously. And you are?