I used to work for a deli. I was the delivery guy and sandwich maker.
Early, early every morning I'd load up the little truck with boxes and boxes of pastries and I'd head off to banks and hospitals and office buildings within a 20 mile radius. I'd drop off a box of donuts and a small crate of juice bottles and hand some point of contact a slip of paper for $70 or more and every time so-and-so would sign the bill and give me a tip, god bless 'em.......................
.......................for a box of donuts.
Think about that for a moment.
$70 or more for a box of maybe, MAYBE, two dozen donuts and a dozen small bottles of orange juice. I could get that same box of donuts myself for at most $10 and a half gallon of orange juice for $2. The person who signed the bill could have picked that shit up on his/her way to work while saving the company a good $50 per week, or more.
But here they were........shelling out seventy bucks or more for donuts.
Let that sink in.
In a world of people complaining about government waste, businesses in IOWA within a 20 mile radius of a small deli and bakery are shelling out over $70 for a couple dozen pastries. Probably more than that RIGHT NOW. Every Single Day of the Week.
So when I hear about government waste, I have to chuckle a bit. When I hear how efficient businesses are in comparison....I have to laugh.
In fact, I'd bet that anybody who has actually OWNED a business would have some words about how efficient their employees are with the business's hard earned money.
Cuz it's always the same, from the smallest business on up to the largest business on up to the Government............it's so much easier to spend money that isn't your own. I don't care if you work for Comcast or the local branch of big bank or Uncle Sam.
When that bill comes along in front of you, you're just as likely to sign it as not no matter who you work for.
Small business. Small business is going to be more attentive to detail. The place where the owner is right there in the building signing checks and in the room with the person ordering pastries....I guarantee my wife would go BALLISTIC if any of her employees paid $70 for a couple dozen pastries on her company's dime.
The point is...the knee jerk notion that business is more efficient than government is a load of horse shit. Completely false. Take it from an old pastry delivery boy.