When I saw a headline stating that the "District Faces $300 Million Budget Shortfall," I'll admit that I was praying that it would be because of the stadium. If bad things are happening in DC, and they inevitably are, I at least want to be proven right.
No such luck here. DC Council incompetence doesn't appear to be the cause of this mess. Instead, it's DC Bureaucrat incompetence.
...two health-care agencies -- the Department of Mental Health and the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Administration -- routinely fail to submit the proper paperwork to receive federal reimbursement for Medicaid and Medicare services.
Washington has a reputation for being filled with bureaucrats. That reputation was mostly created from the presence of the federal government. Still, you'd hope some competent bureaucrats would trickle down to DC government.
The key word in that quote, of course, is "routinely." We keep forgetting to ask the federal government for the money that is rightfully ours? That seems like a pretty big "routine" mistake. Why hasn't this been fixed? We're talking about a lot of money here. And we're just leaving it on the table.
Of course, anytime the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Administration is in the news for something other than the death of one of their wards...that's got to be considered good press for them. Way to go Mental Retardation Administration! No one has died in your care for, like, five months. Keep up the good work!
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$300 million??? Are the retards themsleves in charge of filing the paperwork???
ReplyDeleteYeah, you heard me say retard. F--k off, Corky.
http://www.dcist.com/archives/2006/11/28/just_when_we_st.php
ReplyDeleteI know. Publicly financed stadiums should not be sponsored. That goes for Washington, Detroit, San Diego, etc.
ReplyDeleteNational Field would be the best possible name.
hey, i have a great idea for a blog: someone should read the paper and then offer dull, aggressively unoriginal comments about the articles they read there. maybe the general tone could be one of limp, superficial outrage, with a strong undertone of foot-stamping self-importance. oh, and lots of unclever, clumsy "witticisms."
ReplyDeleteoh, did i say "great idea"? i meant "horri-fucking-ble idea."
but seriously, you're making this too easy.
They make $300 million in parking tickets off me every year. The bastards.
ReplyDeleteThis is the third straight day that I've heard cable news talking about whether or not Brittney Spears wears underwear. I am going fucking insane!!
ReplyDeleteI know this is not related to the blog, but I needed an avenue to vent.