government inefficiency
Oil Spill Is Just Another Example of the Inefficiency of the Federal Government
19/07/10 14:28
Got this email from Marty Connors who spent the weekend at The Beach Club in Fort Morgan on the Alabama coast.
Just an hour ago, we caught a group of local workers who were employed by a sub contractor doing the clean up today and talked to a few of them.
The contractor is given eight miles of beach to "sweep". Employees receive $12 per hour, they are on a 20 minute work 40 minute off hourly schedule in the sun and a 30 minute on 30 minute off schedule if overcast. You can see the rest wagon in the background. Certain humidity readings are reviewed before deployment is allowed.
They are not allowed to get within 4 feet of the water (where most of the tar balls collect ,first fifteen feet, mostly in the water). Each are equipped with rubber boots, gloves, sweepers and identifying gear.
They fill bags with tar balls and sand but are instructed not to fill bags more than the equivalent size of a loaf of bread, so others can carry later in the process. The bags are picked up by tractor and sent for incineration.
We talked at length to one guy who had been unemployed for quite some time. He said, "I needed the work to put food on my table but let me tell you this is a cluster of inefficiency. we spend most of our time waiting for approval to go to work."
Here are some pictures he took:
So, in essence we have workers who are paid $12 to work 1/3 of an hour to collect tar balls, but aren't allowed to go where the tar balls are to pick them up...and to think, people actually want this same government to run our health care system....
Just an hour ago, we caught a group of local workers who were employed by a sub contractor doing the clean up today and talked to a few of them.
The contractor is given eight miles of beach to "sweep". Employees receive $12 per hour, they are on a 20 minute work 40 minute off hourly schedule in the sun and a 30 minute on 30 minute off schedule if overcast. You can see the rest wagon in the background. Certain humidity readings are reviewed before deployment is allowed.
They are not allowed to get within 4 feet of the water (where most of the tar balls collect ,first fifteen feet, mostly in the water). Each are equipped with rubber boots, gloves, sweepers and identifying gear.
They fill bags with tar balls and sand but are instructed not to fill bags more than the equivalent size of a loaf of bread, so others can carry later in the process. The bags are picked up by tractor and sent for incineration.
We talked at length to one guy who had been unemployed for quite some time. He said, "I needed the work to put food on my table but let me tell you this is a cluster of inefficiency. we spend most of our time waiting for approval to go to work."
Here are some pictures he took:
So, in essence we have workers who are paid $12 to work 1/3 of an hour to collect tar balls, but aren't allowed to go where the tar balls are to pick them up...and to think, people actually want this same government to run our health care system....
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