Posted on 03/02/2011 7:00:22 AM PST by arderkrag
A Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday outlined scores of fractured and redundant programs split between federal agencies from the Small Business Administration to the Department of Defense, and identified a patchwork of potential savings and revenue opportunities in the deficit-racked government.
According to the GAO, 20 separate agencies currently run 56 different financial literacy programs. Ten agencies operate 82 teacher quality initiatives and more than 100 programs relating to surface transportation are spread across five federal entities. It takes 15 agencies to oversee food safety, including two for eggs - the Food and Drug Administration monitors unbroken "shell" eggs while the Food Safety and Inspection Service is responsible for "egg products." (Read "Why $100 Billion in House Budget Cuts Is Just the Beginning.")
The report is the first in a series of annual updates from the GAO mandated by Congress. The amendment calling for these studies was pegged to raising the debt ceiling last year in January and was introduced by Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. It passed by a 94-0 vote.
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Streamline the Beast?
No. Kill the Beast. Slaughter it, cut it up, and send the pieces back to the rightful owners: the people and the states who built the damn beast.
Well this helps explain the 2.6 million federal employees. At 150k apiece per year eliminating 1,000,000 of them is 150 billion dollars at least. A start on the deficit at least.
“Department of redundancy department.”
You could say that again.
All this duplication is not an accident. More programs mean more slots for featherbedding relatives of political supporters, and more opportunities for graft and giving grants to friendly groups.
I have a very good friend who is a senior executive at a Government agency. His title is “Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary”. Now.... he’s a pal and all, but c’mon.....
Look at the WH, how many assistants does Michelle have? how many hairdressers does she need. A Social Secretary - usually does the First lady not have a job and could she perform these same duties already. A Chef on staff and yet additional chef’s have to be flown in to make a special dish that Obama likes when he lived in Chicago (ever hear of a recipe sent through the Fax or that new fangled thing - email). Once a week a sports trainer is flown in from Chicago. Parties whereby the taxpayers pay for the likes of professional Sports Figures and Hollywood Actors and Actresses are flownin (okay do not these people have a substanial income to pay their own way when asked to attend a soiree or hoopla)
The Obama administration stated he would clean up the culture of corruption in DC. Yeah right! He cleaned it up alright?, He just made it more deep and imbedded further into the ranks of the Federal Government. For example that now probably has a person in the WH being paid 150K just to pick up poop after the dog, with the abbreviation and title BS PickerUpper,(we all knowing that BS can stand for something else).
what other redundant programs are there.
hey I know of a guy whom went to college got student loans, graduated from college and was involved in an automobile accident, ended up in a Wheel chair. he tried to get work for years, took jobs that he strived to do and reeatedly terminated because he could not do the jobs. Eventually filed for Social Security Disability Approved, Asked to get further training from a program called Ticket to Work through a Voluntary Program in conjuction with Rehabilitation Services administration - denied as being to severe to be able to get any further training. The student loans turned over to US department of Education - US DOE demands payment on now over $173,000 for the student loans that they will turn over for collections. Collections on Social security Disability (the only amount they can take is 49.00 a month). The US Government at work redundant and the inability to work to get people whom want to work, the so called ADA is useless.
The report basically states that they should consolidate into one over-reaching, invasive nanny state program where currently there are five.
Sorry, not good enough.
You could say that again.
But that would be overly-excessive, verbose and redundant wordiness.
“But that would be overly-excessive, verbose and redundant wordiness. “
You could say that again. But I repeat myself.
The DOE should be judged on the metrics of how many domestic energy sources it approves and how fast. After all, isn't the purpose of the so-called Department of Energy to reduce dependence on foreign oil?
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