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RC

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2. Bu$h the Lesser tried to run the government like a business.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Mon Jan 28, 2013, 01:26 AM

Jan 2013

Fired lots of government workers and rehired them as contract workers. It cost the government much more because of paying the companies the contract workers actually did work for. The contract workers took a hit on income.

You can bet there was lots of push-back. Government is not a business and cannot be run as one. That flat out does not work.

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