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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (397650)7/10/2008 12:25:36 PM
From: michael97123  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574981
 
Getting rid of the waste can be an obcession on the right and the strawman on the left. Reasonable folks can hash this out. Penalize corruption big time and make the best deals possible. Not all spending is bad and even if all spending has a 10% govt inefficiency premium built in, this is still better than doing nothing at all or engaging private sector to go where it shouldnt be. For example the big innovation to have corps involved in health insurance for their workers was bound to fail over time. Lets separate the intertangling of conflicting motivations like profit and public service. Either you are for the sharelholders or the public---really cant have it both ways. Mike



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (397650)7/10/2008 2:35:05 PM
From: bentway  Respond to of 1574981
 
Believe it or not Ten, I also believe there's a lot of waste in government. I also believe we have way too many pointless laws.
I think we should have a mechanism for dealing with it, a kind of additional "check and balance".

A very large and powerful committee in Congress whose sole purpose is to review government programs and legislation and shut them down if their time has passed or if they were whack in the first place. We could call it the "Sunset Committee"


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