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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (762314)5/17/2007 4:41:43 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
OUR EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT: "But just how effective is the government? According
to the Office of Management and Budget, just 17 percent of federal programs are
'effective' while 25 percent are deemed 'not performing.' The federal
government wastes billions (trillions?) of dollars each year thanks to
mismanagement, fraud, and abuse. As Chris Edwards notes in 'Downsizing the
Federal Government,' 'erroneous and fraudulent payments to Medicare cost $20
billion annually,' 'overpayments in federal rental housing subsidies cost $2
billion a year,' and a single inside deal at the Pentagon 'would have wasted up
to $2.5 billion of taxpayer money.'"

-- "Happy Bureaucrat Week," Brandon Arnold, director of government affairs at
the Cato Institute:
cato.org
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