The key to downsizing government lies in guys like Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and the reports he puts out. The Senator puts out two annual reports that are of particular note, the Wastebook and the Duplication Report. While the Wastebook is a wealth of stupid spending and questionable grant programs, the Duplication Report is a outline of the multiple different governmental agencies doing the same thing. To date, the retiring Senator and the rest of the non-partisans at the Government Accountability Office have found 188 areas where the fat could be trimmed and save US tens of billions of dollars, a year. But that’d make too much sense.
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