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Signs

Who’s in charge: It’s rather symbolic of what’s wrong with Washington that a commission ostensibly created to promote deficit reduction is seeking a bigger budget

Posted in uncategorized on June 8th, 2010 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |

4 Responses to “Signs”

  1. Jake Says:
    June 8th, 2010 at 10:28 am

    Even more symbolic? The commission really is underfunded.

    The White House has set aside the resources to provide the equivalent of four full-time salaries and $500,000 in operating costs for the commission, fiscal commission Executive Director Bruce Reed told Tax Analysts.

    Four people and half a million dollars to analyze the entire federal budget in less than one year? I’d be surprised if that budget could rent the office space they would need, much less get them the computers, copiers, and other equipment necessary for any kind of effective analysis.

    It’s almost like they weren’t actually expected to come up with real results, or something.

  2. Matt Groom Says:
    June 8th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

    If they were interested in reducing the deficit, they would appoint private think tanks who do this kind of analysis already. Their payment should be based on a percentage of how much of the budget they reduce, specifically that which is provably wasteful, fraudulent, or abusive of federal tax receipts.

  3. John Smith Says:
    June 8th, 2010 at 10:44 pm

    Pay me 4 salaries and a half a million dollar budget and I could have it ready on excel or powerpoint in a matter of a couple days. Not exactly hard to do. Problem is no one would listen.

  4. Geodkyt Says:
    June 9th, 2010 at 11:57 am

    I’m with Matt.

    I recall a very successful program the military used to have (or was it just the Army?), where a soldier submitting a practical cost savings idea got a check for a percentage of the savings (I think it was a slice of the savings for one year).

    A lot of good ideas came out. I’ll bet a Beltway Bandit firm could come up with more, all in the name of greed. (“WHAT? You mean, FOR ONCE, we’ll get paid MORE the more we REDUCE government costs, not the other way around? Even on a purely commission basis, we’ll all be going to Aruba this winter!”)

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