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To: TigerPaw who wrote (9733)	4/18/2002 6:35:47 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 21057

I don't know exactly how that impacts meat inspection. Then how do you know it was cut at all? Could have been increased. And OSHA had been mentioned in the discussion. And it's budget has been increased. Re the truck: And my point was that there were technological and economic limits the engineers who designed that truck had to work within. Same as now.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (9733)	4/18/2002 6:39:28 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

The example budget cut I used was for USDA and was in the range of 9-10% Typically, agencies handle that kind of budget cut in a very inefficient but effective way. What they do is cut all expenses over which they have control. That means that there is no travel, no training, no paper for the copiers, no investment in technology, and hiring and promotions are frozen. They pretty much keep on keeping on. Service goes down, productivity goes way down, morale goes down. There are repeated cycles of this. It's a large part of why the government doesn't work very well. If Congress or the President want to eliminate meat inspections, for example, they should specifically cut that program rather than continuing to perform the full range of functions in half-assed way. But of course, they rarely do that. It's just too hard politically.