Social Security & Medicare

Beartracks

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6. Efficiency isn't efficiency without effectiveness.

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 03:52 PM

Yesterday

I should think that, by definition, decreasing a program's effectiveness means you have not increased its efficiency, no matter how much less money is now being spent. Focusing strictly on the dollars as a supposed measure of efficiency is just another smoky mirror from Republicans to act ideologically against common sense, Congressional mandates, and the needs of real Americans. Efficiency is a measure of program delivery per dollar spent, where delivery is the success of the program, i.e. how effective it is at achieving its goals. However, if the delivery of services suffers from budget cuts so that the program can no longer successfully achieve its goals, then efficiency is not what's happening. Bullshit is.

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