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“I bought my mom a Yorkie for her birthday.”

“Yorkie, huh? Cute breed. How old is your mom?”

“She’s 92.”

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Large dogs can knock a frail person to the ground. Hyperactive or herding breeds require a lot of exercise and attention. Longhaired dogs tend to shed more, creating extra housework and requiring frequent grooming. Many purebreds and older dogs have health problems of their own, meaning frequent trips to the vet, medication and special care.

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Small dogs tend to get underfoot. Remember Paula Abdul? Made famous by her talent as a dancer, Abdul lost her balance and fell on her face trying to avoid stepping on her Chihuahua.

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Imagine that you owned a successful business that was gaining 10,000 new customers every single day. And all the market projections said that trend would continue for many more years. Would you be hiring new staff and opening new outlets to keep up with the demand? Or would you be cutting back on employees, reducing office hours and closing facilities?

If you were in the private sector, I guarantee you would be doing the former. But in the wacky world of government funding and operations, the latter is the norm.

Take, as an example, my former employer: the Social Security Administration. In each of the last eight years, around 10,000 people a day have been retiring and signing up for Social Security benefits. And that is expected to continue for another dozen years or more. In other words, SSA workloads are booming!

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by more than 10%. During that same period, its ben- more difficult to get through on the phone and aleficiary base went up by 12%, and its fixed costs in- most impossible to get into a local Social Security office. That crisis is going to eventually end. But the creased by about $300 million each year.

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