The U.S. government gives its citizens lots of overlap and inefficiency for their tax dollars Government is often accused of trying to solve problems by throwing money at them, but things are actually much worse. The U.S. tries to solve problems by throwing money away. Have you got a hangnail? Somewhere in the federal bureaucracy there has to be a program even for such a minor ill. Because there are dozens and dozens of programs for everything else. So says a new report from the Government Accountability Office. As in 82 separate programs to improve teaching, all with their own budgets, adding up to $4 billion, and nobody in charge of making sure they don't overlap. As in 47 programs to fight unemployment, 62 to help the "transportation-disabled," 56 to cure financial illiteracy and 20 to attack homelessness. There are 18 programs that spend $62.5 billion to provide food and nutritional assistance, including one run by, of all places, the Department of Homeland Security. Take that, Osama! How much of the $3.6 trillion federal budget (including $1.6 trillion in borrowed money) is wasted? Hundreds of billions. Yes, Washington has a huge deficit, and it's measured both in dollars and sense. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions...s_of_overlap_and_inefficiency_for_their_.html
One of the few promises (inefficiency) Odumba has kept Listen carefully: <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cjMl9QvdxoI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Government has been out of control for quite some time. People are just now starting to wake up to this fact. It's an opportunity to change the expansive way the federal government grows. It's an opportunity that needs to be grabbed to reverse course and shrink the government. If the way congress raises campaign funds and rewards campaign contributors isn't changed during this opportunity, then we will lose and the U.S. will fall from grace. Also, if the way congress interacts with lobbyists isn't changed so the lobbyists have less influence than the individual constituants, then we will also lose this country.