BLOATWORK - GIVE US THE MONEY INSTEAD

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BLOATWORK - GIVE US THE MONEY INSTEAD!

bloatwork, (n.) work whose economic benefit is not worth its cost;  especially work that would not exist but for legislation requiring it;  
bloatworker, (n.) a worker who performs bloatwork, especially in the public sector.

Bloatwork was the seed that led to the development of  happiocracy and other "happi" notions. So it is appropriate to air this phenomenon in the early part of this book.  

Bloatwork may yield worthwhile results. Presumably beneficiaries are happy they are getting what they lobbied for.

The problem is not the bloatwork itself. It is the cost of legislating it and the risk of creating Marginalized MOOs.

Every new law - or "program" - requires lawmakers and the government apparatus to draft it, debate it, support it, enact it, regulate it, administer it, oversee it and enforce it. When erstwhile law-abiding citizens break it, law enforcers have to pursue them and apprehend them; judges have to fine them or imprison them.  The list goes on and on. And the cost goes up and up.

Even a relatively small bill may involve huge amounts of government-paid Time.

On top of which is the inevitable creation of "Marginalized MOOs" (MMs) - those who think  they too should get the legislated benefit and are disappointed - or sometimes outraged - that they don't.  As long as MMs remain small in number, there may be no societal problem. But as the number of MMs increases, there is a greater and greater chance of social instability and, one day, blood in the streets.

The Cato Institute has published an article entitled "The American Welfare State: How We Spend Nearly One Trillion Dollars a Year Fighting Poverty and Fail". This article lists 122 welfare programs. For example:

1. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, 

    - costing $21b, benefiting 4,492,000 families i.e. $4,675 each family

2.  Head Start, 

    - costing $7,100,000,000, participants 904,000 i.e. $7,854 each

3.  Home Investment Partnership Program, 

    - costing $1,610,000, participants 92,228 i.e. $17,457

Well, congratulations to all the participants above.

But may there not be more than 4,492,000 families who think that they too deserve "Temporary Assistance"?  Might not these Marginalized MOOs.be unhappy at their exclusion from receiving what they consider to be their fair share of taxpayers' money?

May there not be more than 904,000 individuals who think that they too deserve "Head Start" funding?  Might not these Marginalized MOOs be unhappy at their exclusion from receiving what they consider to be their fair share of taxpayers' money?

May there not be more than 92,228 individuals who think that they too deserve funding from the Home Investment Partnership Program?  Might not these Marginalized MOOs be unhappy at their exclusion from receiving what they consider to be their fair share of taxpayers' money?

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to judge how many MMs there are, except by watching the size and severity of demonstrations.  The problem with this policy is that the unhappierness by this time has reached a level where it cannot easily be curtailed.

What is the solution?  It is to replace bloatwork with money.

This not only empowers people to adjust their spending to more exactly match their needs, it also gives them more money than the value of the welfare they would otherwise receive.

Why? Because all the bloatworkers involved in government-designed transfer programs could instead pursue their passions or do other work that might be of greater benefit to the economy.

In a happiocracy, citizens get what is called "happiCASH" instead of govenrment hand-outs.

EXAMPLES OF US GOVERNMENT WASTE 

1. State Abuse of Medicaid Funding Formulas -       $70 bil

2. Medicare Overspending -                                       $30 bil

3. The Missing                                                             $25 bil

4. Funding Fictitious Colleges and Students -           $21.8 bil 

5. Earned Income Tax Credit Over payments -          $9.9 bil

6. Manipulating Data to Encourage Spending -         $5 bil

7. Empty buildings -                                                   $1.7 bil

8. Unused Flight Tickets Totaling                              $100 mil

9. “Camouflage” that sticks out -                                           $28 mil

10 Embezzled Funds at the Dept. of Agriculture      $5.8 mil 

11. Holograms of dead comedians -                           $5.2 mil

12. Paying hipsters to stop smoking -                         $5 mil

13. Hamster fights -                                                    $3 mil

14. Super Bowl ad -                                                    $2.5 mil

15. Printing documents no one reads -                       $1 mil

16. Forgotten storage -                                                $862,000

17. Digitized Grateful Dead memorabilia -                $615,175  

18. Sex, drugs, and… quails -                                     $518,000

19. Pancake house -                                                    $500,000

20. Credit Card Abuse at the Department of Defense $293,900

https://www.rd.com/culture/wasteful-government-spending-examples/  

http://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/report/top-10-examples-government-waste   

IN 2005, THERE ARE ABOUT 170,000 PAGES OF ACTIVE LEGISLATION IN EU
– NIGEL FARAGE IN YOUTUBE 

US - 74,000 PAGES OF TAX CODE

UK - 21,000 PAGES

CANADA - 3,314 PAGES

AUSTRALIA - 3,657 PAGES 

HONGKONG - 276 PAGES

NUMBER OF NGO’s IN THE WORLD is estimated to be 10 million.
 – WIKIPEDIA  

BUREAUCRATS/GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

AUSTRALIA            - 1,987,000 AS OF 2018 

CANADA                  - 3,600,000 AS OF 2010 

CHINA                       - 2,000,000 AS OF 2009 

EU                              - 46, 356 AS OF 2016

INDIA                        - 21,500,000 AS OF 2016

JAPAN                       - 2,855,106 AS OF 2009

PHILIPPINES          - 1,312,508 AS OF 2015

UK                              - 5,424,000 AS OF 2017

USA                            - 21,995,000 AS OF 2015

HappiMoney is a brand new monetary system that puts money into everybody's pockets every month and distributed equally to All.  This happens in all countries that belong to the HappiMoney System.  The amount per person is related to each country's economy. 

In addition to HappiMoney for all of its own people, each country also contributes 10% to a HappiPool that is redistributed to all peoples of all countries that belong to the HappiMoney Community.  

Thus, in due course, the inequalities between countries is reduced until one day in the future, most people in the world will get free HappiMoney that enables them to choose whether to work or not. This is true freedom. This new status, by the way, is called Full UNemployment.

You will learn more about this new system here. 

BLOATWORK - GIVE US THE MONEY INSTEAD!

bloatwork, (n.) work whose economic benefit is not worth its cost;  especially work that would not exist but for legislation requiring it;  
bloatworker, (n.) a worker who performs bloatwork, especially in the public sector.

Bloatwork was the seed that led to the development of  happiocracy and other "happi" notions. So it is appropriate to air this phenomenon in the early part of this book.  

Bloatwork may yield worthwhile results. Presumably beneficiaries are happy they are getting what they lobbied for.

The problem is not the bloatwork itself. It is the cost of legislating it and the risk of creating Marginalized MOOs.

Every new law - or "program" - requires lawmakers and the government apparatus to draft it, debate it, support it, enact it, regulate it, administer it, oversee it and enforce it. When erstwhile law-abiding citizens break it, law enforcers have to pursue them and apprehend them; judges have to fine them or imprison them.  The list goes on and on. And the cost goes up and up.

Even a relatively small bill may involve huge amounts of government-paid Time.

On top of which is the inevitable creation of "Marginalized MOOs" (MMs) - those who think  they too should get the legislated benefit and are disappointed - or sometimes outraged - that they don't.  As long as MMs remain small in number, there may be no societal problem. But as the number of MMs increases, there is a greater and greater chance of social instability and, one day, blood in the streets.

The Cato Institute has published an article entitled "The American Welfare State: How We Spend Nearly One Trillion Dollars a Year Fighting Poverty and Fail". This article lists 122 welfare programs. For example:

1. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, 

    - costing $21b, benefiting 4,492,000 families i.e. $4,675 each family

2.  Head Start, 

    - costing $7,100,000,000, participants 904,000 i.e. $7,854 each

3.  Home Investment Partnership Program, 

    - costing $1,610,000, participants 92,228 i.e. $17,457

Well, congratulations to all the participants above.

But may there not be more than 4,492,000 families who think that they too deserve "Temporary Assistance"?  Might not these Marginalized MOOs.be unhappy at their exclusion from receiving what they consider to be their fair share of taxpayers' money?

May there not be more than 904,000 individuals who think that they too deserve "Head Start" funding?  Might not these Marginalized MOOs be unhappy at their exclusion from receiving what they consider to be their fair share of taxpayers' money?

May there not be more than 92,228 individuals who think that they too deserve funding from the Home Investment Partnership Program?  Might not these Marginalized MOOs be unhappy at their exclusion from receiving what they consider to be their fair share of taxpayers' money?

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to judge how many MMs there are, except by watching the size and severity of demonstrations.  The problem with this policy is that the unhappierness by this time has reached a level where it cannot easily be curtailed.

What is the solution?  It is to replace bloatwork with money.

This not only empowers people to adjust their spending to more exactly match their needs, it also gives them more money than the value of the welfare they would otherwise receive.

Why? Because all the bloatworkers involved in government-designed transfer programs could instead pursue their passions or do other work that might be of greater benefit to the economy.

In a happiocracy, citizens get what is called "happiCASH" instead of govenrment hand-outs.

EXAMPLES OF US GOVERNMENT WASTE 

1. State Abuse of Medicaid Funding Formulas -       $70 bil

2. Medicare Overspending -                                       $30 bil

3. The Missing                                                             $25 bil

4. Funding Fictitious Colleges and Students -           $21.8 bil 

5. Earned Income Tax Credit Over payments -          $9.9 bil

6. Manipulating Data to Encourage Spending -         $5 bil

7. Empty buildings -                                                   $1.7 bil

8. Unused Flight Tickets Totaling                              $100 mil

9. “Camouflage” that sticks out -                                           $28 mil

10 Embezzled Funds at the Dept. of Agriculture      $5.8 mil 

11. Holograms of dead comedians -                           $5.2 mil

12. Paying hipsters to stop smoking -                         $5 mil

13. Hamster fights -                                                    $3 mil

14. Super Bowl ad -                                                    $2.5 mil

15. Printing documents no one reads -                       $1 mil

16. Forgotten storage -                                                $862,000

17. Digitized Grateful Dead memorabilia -                $615,175  

18. Sex, drugs, and… quails -                                     $518,000

19. Pancake house -                                                    $500,000

20. Credit Card Abuse at the Department of Defense $293,900

https://www.rd.com/culture/wasteful-government-spending-examples/  

http://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/report/top-10-examples-government-waste