Free Republic

Among the many good things that President Ronald Reagan did while in office was to bring together 161 corporate executives and community leaders -- staffed with an army of nearly 2,000 volunteers -- to study waste and inefficiency in government. Big job, that. But people took the job so seriously that the commission was funded by $76 million in contributions from the private sector. That, of course was the Grace Commission, which reported back with 2,478 recommendations which, if implemented, would have saved taxpayers an average of $141.5 billion a year -- all without eliminating any essential services.(1) To say...