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Old 12-03-2011, 03:31 PM   #21
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Those that don't, die. Since companies can die, they can't afford to let waste occur except when times are good. that's what the executives have the huge expense accounts(heck, when times are good, even a lot of sales people get lavish expense accounts), and everyone seems to be getting bonuses. I've worked for growing companies flush with cash, and lean companies just trying to stay afloat. Since the government is always flush with cash, or can at least borrow if they aren't, they never really root out waste.
I don't know. I've worked for several large companies that are still in existence. They let the waste exist.
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Old 12-03-2011, 10:57 PM   #22
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It is human nature, that when working with OPM, money is wasted.

Fed Gov works with trillions of OPM! Results in huge waste. Duh!
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Old 12-03-2011, 11:25 PM   #23
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I worked in the aerospace industry and waste was above 13%. The company was admired in the industry for being efficient too. They're still in business.
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Old 12-04-2011, 03:20 AM   #24
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Big companies do have a lot of waste, because any large, unwieldy bureacracy will have waste. Still, the large companies do cut that waste when money becomes a problem.

Governments do the opposite. They actually cut meat instead of fat to extort more money from the taxpayers. There has never been a budget cut in history that didn't cause an outcry. This is by design.

For example, when Mitch Daniels cut education spending in Indiana, most school districts laid off teachers despite being top heavy with administrators. Other states START by closing parks and libraries, because they want taxpayers to feel pain.
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Old 12-04-2011, 03:55 AM   #25
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I worked in the aerospace industry and waste was above 13%. The company was admired in the industry for being efficient too. They're still in business.
Who wrote the checks to the company you worked for. I'd say the odds are pretty good it was the government.
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Old 12-04-2011, 04:09 AM   #26
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Aerospace gets a lot of government contracts. A company that relies heavily on government money tends to act like an arm of the government because the government doesn't root out waste and inefficiency. So why should a company getting money regardless of performance care either?
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Old 12-04-2011, 04:57 AM   #27
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Who wrote the checks to the company you worked for. I'd say the odds are pretty good it was the government.
Some were government, some were commercial. It was Boeing, about a 50-50 mix of defense and commercial at the time. I worked on both sides of the company.
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