Thursday, April 10, 2014

How Many Government Agencies Does it take to do ONE JOB?

.. Government often has 10 agencies doing one job:
A new government report on duplication and fragmentation in federal programs can read like a book of "screw-in-a-light-bulb" jokes. 
It takes 10 different offices at the Department of Health and Human Services to run programs addressing AIDS in minority communities. Autism research is spread out over 11 different agencies. Eight agencies at the Defense Department are looking for prisoners of war and missing in action. And Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado has eight different satellite control centers to control 10 satellite programs.
The report, by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office, identifies 26 new areas where federal government programs are fragmented, duplicative, overlapping or just inefficient. Add that to the 162 areas identified in past reports, and Congress has a road map for saving tens of billions of dollars a year.
"Turning this ready-made list of cuts into savings is one of the best ways Congress can regain the trust and confidence of the American people," said Tom Coburn, who wrote the legislation requiring the annual report. "At the end of the day, there are no shortcuts around the hard work of oversight and identifying and eliminating waste."
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