Palin: We are going to find efficiencies in every department

[deminks]

Palin has no clue how entitlements work.»

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/palin-entitlement/

Tonight in an ABC interview, host Charlie Gibson asked Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) if she would cut entitlements — such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Palin, however, began talking about spending by government agencies, demonstrating a fundamental ignorance on economics:

GIBSON: Do you talk about entitlement reform? Is there money you can save in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid?

PALIN: I am sure that there are efficiencies that are going to be found in all of these agencies. I’m confident in that.

GIBSON: The agencies are not involved in entitlements. Basically, discretionary spending is 18
percent of the budget.

(snip)

Transcript:

GIBSON: So let me break some of those down. You talk about spending. How much smaller would a McCain budget be? Where would you cut?

PALIN: We’re going to find efficiencies in every department. We have got to. There are some things that I think should be off the table. Veterans’ programs, off the table. You know, we owe it to our veterans and that’s the greatest manifestation that we can show in terms of support for our military, those who are in public service fighting for America. It’s to make sure that our veterans are taken care of and the promises that we’ve made to them are fulfilled.

GIBSON: So you’d take military off the table, the veterans’ benefits. That’s 20 percent of the budget. Do you talk about entitlement reform? Is there money you can save in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid?

PALIN: I am sure that there are efficiencies that are going to be found in all of these agencies. I’m confident in that.

(end snip)

More, and video at the link.

Ummm, inefficiency is that word you are looking for, not that everyone graduated from Harvard or anything.

[likesmountains 52]

1. It's possible that she does want to eliminate any efficiencies.,, maybe a freudian slip!

[EFerrari]

2. An efficiency is a type of small apartment. n/t

[livetohike]

3. She has the poorest command of the English language of

anyone in politics that I've heard. When will she be called on this? It's embarrassing. Can you imagine her speaking with a foreign leader? Maybe that plays well in Alaska, but no way is she ready for the national/international scene. Nor will she ever be.

[Cleita]

4. More Repulsican doublespeak, like Arnold promising to open the books in

California to find all the waste of taxpayer's money. Uh, didn't Arnold know that the books are a matter of public record?

[Windy]

5. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!God that just drove me nuts. Using a "big word" inappropriately

trying to "sound smart". I am disgusted by the republican party's choice and I wish that the majority of the population was!

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. 'efficiencies' are good, right? lol

[billyoc]

7. Imagine some poor interpreter trying to translate her gibberish?

Obama/Biden, do it for the interpreters!

:rofl:

[Windy]

8. I'm sure that she was "instructed" to use the word "inefficiencies"

She is too illiterate to realize that she used the wrong word...over and over and over!

[meow mix]

9. she has trouble with words that dont appear in the childrens-version bible

yikes

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Maybe she was lapsing into tongues, where in some other language "efficiencies" means...

...aw, f**k it, Sarah, I can't help ya.

[jimshoes]

11. Did she mean....

Did she mean inefficiencies?:banghead:

[suston96]

How about "deficiencies"?

[suston96]

12. DP

[hisownpetard]

13. Did she mean "deficiencies?" Or maybe she was talking about a small apt. with a small refrigerator

hot plate that you can rent by the week.

She is giving Alaska a bad name.

[Lex]

14. Such as . . . the Iraq.

nt

[sutz12]

15. Every time I hear the word "efficiency" from a Republican...

My secret decoder ring comes up with "privatize."

:shrug:

[Berry Cool]

16. My secret decoder ring comes up with "fire government employees and make the remaining ones

work harder doing more for less money."

The Republicans call this "running things efficiently." I call it a recipe for standing around waiting forever for someone to help you or to answer your question on the phone.

Anyone been to a JCPenney lately? When's the last time you picked up something and took it to a counter and didn't find a line that was a mile long, or just find the checkout empty and unmanned? How long did it take for you to find a department on the floor with someone actually working the checkout? How long did you have to wait in line?

Your experience was like that because JCPenney has been "finding efficiencies" in its operations for years.

[jmowreader]

17. If the words "Six Sigma" come out of this woman's mouth, RUN!!!

Thanks to Bob Nardelli and his efforts to Six Sigmatize The Home Depot. I'm certain the next Repuke administration will make Nardelli secretary of something and attempt to Six Sigmatize the federal government.

Unfortunately for them, Six Sigma's a manufacturing discipline that only works in an environment it can control. It doesn't work in retail because it's not designed to handle inputs like retail customers. It definitely won't work in a government.

Oh yeah, you'll like this: my company had a Six Sigma guy in house in August. I mentioned retail Six Sigma...his very words were "What the FUCK? This can't work there!"