First and foremost, federal programs must be evaluated for waste then more effective changes can be applied or some programs may prove to be ineffective and/or not serving a useful propose and should be eliminated!

Voter Ignorance Threatens Deficit Reduction and America


Reducing wasteful spending is not easy, but necessary. Of course, eliminating waste, in itself, cannot balance the budget. BUT, it is the place to start

Unfortunately the blatant ignorance of the U.S. public feeds the media giants who have sold tax cuts and national security like baby talk to a baby. In our stupidity we will do stupid things such as continue to elect people who are even more clueless about reality than we.

In an age where politicians are less accountable to their constituents than ever before and where our republic resembles a direct democracy more and more each day, the people on whose ''support of'' or ''opposition to'' the fate of any policy rests, are mostly clueless about the state of their country? Fun times ahead!"

One of Washington's biggest lies about federal spending will be endlessly repeated by President Obama, congressional Democrats, special interest advocates and the liberal mainstream media. That lie is the federal budget really cannot be cut because it deliver essential services that cannot be provided any other way. Politicians and others who claim that a $4 trillion annual federal budget can't be cut by hundreds of billions of dollars simply aren't telling the truth.


Six Categories of Waste

The six categories of wasteful and unnecessary spending are:

1. Programs that should be devolved to state and local governments;
2. Programs that could be better performed by the private sector;
3. Mistargeted programs whose recipients should not be entitled to government benefits;
4. Outdated and unnecessary programs;
5. Duplicative programs; and
6. Inefficiency, mismanagement, and fraud.

Below are four examples of the **50 Examples of Government Waste

$72 billion in improper payments in 2008
$92 billion on corporate welfare (excluding TARP)
$25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties
22 percent of federal programs -- costs taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually – these programs do not show any positive impact on the populations they serve.

**50 Examples of Government Waste..@.... http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/10/50-Examples-of-Government-Waste