"200 people planted 2 acres of land, costing 490,000!" This news quickly sparked heated discussions on the Internet. As a taxpayer, are you outraged by this?
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Let's put aside our indignation and analyze this absurd incident in detail.
From the perspective of the matching of manpower input and workload, 200 people transplant only 2-2.5 acres of land, and there is a serious surplus of manpower. For ordinary farmers, two or three people can complete this job in half a day. It can be seen that this is extremely inefficient and human resources are abused.
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Although the official said that only "tens of thousands of yuan" were spent, the rumors of 490,000 yuan questioned the rationality of the expenditure. Such a large amount of money is spent on rice planting activities on just a few acres of land, which really makes people wonder whether there is a suspicion of excessive expenditure or public funds and private pulp.
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The practical significance and effectiveness of the campaign have also been questioned. Officially, it is to increase the attention of cadres to rural development, but can they achieve this goal by doing it alone? The reality is that they may not even be able to appreciate the smell of the land and rice plants, and all they reap is banter and contempt for the peasants. The aimless formalism of the show will only make the rural problem more and more outsourced and forgotten.
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It also reflects the shortcomings of current government decision-making and regulation. The fact that such a huge amount of money can be spent on a rice planting event is undoubtedly a serious flaw in the decision-making process and a non-existent regulatory mechanism. With such a style, I am afraid that even the grassroots officials will be lucky and take risks and waste public funds.
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The strong criticism and questioning of public opinion shows that society resolutely cannot tolerate such phenomena. However, the few official explanations and apologies are far from enough to quell the people's anger, let alone help resolve this social contradiction brewed by formalism and bureaucracy.
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The most direct consequence will inevitably further damage the credibility of the government in the private sector. In the eyes of the common people, the government is a whole, and the absurd behavior of a few people is enough to tarnish the image of the entire institution. The only way to rebuild the image of a good government is to remove the scars and stop the bleeding in terms of institutional mechanisms, promote effective accountability, and clarify powers and responsibilities.
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This incident systematically exposed all kinds of malpractices of formalism and bureaucracy in terms of human resources, financial expenditure, decision-making and supervision, and so on. As the agent of public power and the guardian of the blood and sweat of taxpayers, the government must be determined to eradicate this cancer once and for all, so as to win back the most precious trust of the people.