Let’s face it, Republicans are out to prove government is bad, so they're unintentionally botching it up every step of the way. All they’re doing is passing the trash on their checklist of right wing priorities, and magically, they’ll take care of themselves? Here’s another story that proves how bad government can be, compliments of the party that hates it so much:
jsonline: Wisconsin residents have overwhelmed the state Justice Department with so many concealed weapon permit applications agency officials say they probably won't meet deadlines for issuing approvals this month despite pulling dozens of employees from other tasks to help.
That’s right, the rest of government has to suffer so the Justice Dept. won’t have to spend money hiring more GOVERNMENT employees to take on the added cost. Our overzealous Republican extremists set an unrealistic deadline to prove how irrational they could be passing out permits:
The law requires the agency to process applications received before Nov. 30 within 45 days. Any applications received after that date must be processed within 21 days.
(The DOJ) had received 64,832 applications, issued 36,373 permits and denied 800, mostly because addresses applicants submitted didn't match their addresses in state Department of Transportation records.
If this were voter registration, Republicans would be screaming fraud at the top of their voice. 800 hundred fraudulent names. Amazing? But just to show you how convoluted and bad Republicans are at running government, check out how bent out of shape conservatives are when they have to add more lazy overpaid employees:
The law doesn't impose any sanctions or penalties if the agency fails to meet the deadlines … The law authorized $236,700 drawn from application fees for 11 new Department of Justice hires to help process applications, including 10 six-month employees whose jobs will end in March. However, the agency has been operating with only 10 of the new positions; two of the six-month workers left and the agency re-filled only one of the positions. End-of-the-year holidays have slowed processing down … been forced to pull sometimes dozens of other employees a day from their regular tasks to work on applications … They've worked on days off and postponed vacations into next year to devote more time to the applications … the department has paid out about $30,000 in overtime on application work between Nov. 4 and Dec. 17. The Legislature's budget committee approved a department request to spend $1.5 million from application fees to hire more than two dozen additional employees to help with applications over the next two fiscal years. Eleven six-month employees will start work on Jan. 3 but will need up to a month of training. The remaining 14.5 employees will start in March, after the nine current limited-term positions end.
Chaos? So this is the Republican version of streamlining government?
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