Kevin Drum seems surprised that the average citizen thinks government is 50% inefficient. Kevin has no clue because progressives and conservatives stopped the BLS from taking government 1nefficiency measures about 15 years ago.
Government is very inefficient, progressives are simply surround themselves with fiction to justify their views. That is why bloggers like Yeglesias live in a dream world, their world view does not allow them to measure government productivity, they just assume it the way they like.
Where do Progessives go to get a measure of government productivity. They turn to economists like DeLong and Krugman. Where do I go? I go outside on garbage day and check how full the bins are for our flat rate garbage service. They are in fact, 1/3 full and would be completely full if the government servicde was not flat rate, like the water around here.
Did you know that Bill Clinton ordered the BLS to quit collecting statistics on government profuctiivity. Why?
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