Posted on 06/16/2017 8:13:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it.
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year.
“We’re looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time,” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at the White House. He likened the move to the government “cleaning out our closets.”
Deregulation is a major ambition of President Donald Trump’s agenda; as one example, he has signed more laws rolling back his predecessor’s regulations than the combined total of the three previous presidents since the process was established by the 1999 Congressional Review Act.
Where is all this paperwork stored?
He showed a 70-pound, $21 Million report that was prepared for one stupid 18 mile stretch of road. Where does that go?
NO ONE could ever read that.
What!! Wasteful Govt at its finest. Thank god for Trump. These little cash cows are coming to an end and this is why so many are out to get Trump.
But shouldn’t we be preparing now for Y3K?
If glowbull warming doesn’t get us, Y3K surely will.
They call it “cleaning the closet.” Does it need to be investigated? Very suspicious.
And the winning spreads across another spectrum....Atta way to go President Trump!
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We desperately need a sundown amendment to the constitution for every act of congress, or executive order, terminating them after four years, and requiring the burning of the written copies thereof to generate electricity.
We also need a ten page anti-baffle-gab limit on congressional acts to be added to the constitution.
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Great, maybe he should stop the horseshoe development program at NASA too? /s
I will never forget listening to the radio on 12/31/99 - they did an interview in Sydney Australia, the radio guy asked the reporter on the scene what was happening was there any problem with Y2K, she said a few words and then “about Y2K.... and it went silent, it was just a glitch but I thought OMG....
My wonderful son was born 2 months later.
Trump could do us all a favor and VETO this one if it gets to his desk. I thought we PROVED there was no tampering! We are only going to screw up relations with one hell of a potential enemy. Poop on themselves, they deserve it, but let’s keep the BS inside our borders.
Anyone who is in a job that is directly tied to this should be immediately fired.
And sued for fraud...
Every law MUST BE read out loud from a podium by the proposers, non-stop.
That would tend to eliminate 3,000 page Obamacare-type laws.
Every law MUST include a paragraph that includes WHICH of the enumerated powers authorizes it. And the justification can be accepted or rejected if it is not specific enough. (This would eliminate citing the “general welfare” clause as justification for everything)
We (ILEX,) burried thatY2K bug 28 years ago. ROTF LOL!!!!!!!
Count the cranes in DC and remember, you are paying for those within the government and the contractors who are working in these “fake jobs”.
Yep. Lots and lots of make-work paper shufflers are going to be looking for work over the next four years.
And, people who manage the make-work paper shufflers will get consolidated ("Dave, we've let go 75% of your dept, so it's getting folded into Bob's team. We need to let you go, too....")
Most likely, a lot will be handled through attrition...."Before retirement, Mary did an excellent job of managing her team of paper shufflers for the past 30 years. Her $100K job, plus benefits, will not be re-filled, Bob will be handling her duties from here on."
Don't get me wrong, there will still be an enormous bureaucracy kicking around when Trump is done.... but it will be a whole lot smaller. I'd imagine many of them will find their way into academia, to milk that cash cow for awhile until it, too, runs dry.
And jeez, 1200 manhours to shuffle useless forms? That's one person for a half-year. Or, more likely, three people for 10 weeks, and the rest of their time is spent doing something equally useless.
Question is, did they get their TPS reports in on time....
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