Our govt has grown bloated - identify ways to shrink it!

[Mad in Minnesota]

Every department has to be analyzed. Every bit of pork that has been put into place, must be recalled and money put back in the bank.

For instance.

 

• Our Social Security is deeply in trouble. Yet our government gave everyone a two percent tax CUT this year? That's insane!!!! What kind of irresponsible "leaders" do we have in Washington?

• The USPS, per Wikipedia, "The number of gallons of fuel used in 2009 was 444 million, at a cost of US$1.1 billion.".  What if we only received our mail every other day?  Could we cut this number, probably not in half, but perhaps by a third?  "The United States Postal Service employs some 596,000 workers, making it the second-largest" - could we cut 1/3 of this number with every other day delivery?  How many billions of dollars a year would this save?  A bankrupt government can't afford mail delivery 6 days a week, IMHO....  If we cut 1/3 (over next 10 years or so) we'd reduce post office workers by 180,000, or roughly $3.5BLN (figure 50k a year, plus bennies) per year, plus perhaps $363mm per year on gas?)

Where else do we have unecessary services that could be considered waste?

 

 

[Ivy Pastore]

Your definitely on the right track only problem is the people that get laid off. We need to cut spending but why not get rid of the 50 or so committees that have expanded our government most of them have other jobs. If they want to keep the committees the members should work on a voluntary basis. And all government employees (except military) income should be taxed the same as the private employees. We employ them and they get tax breaks.