As America’s budget deficit takes center stage, Republicans that want to regain their party’s rightful place as the guardian of fiscal discipline need to present realistic, achievable ways of bringing the budget into balance. Doing this could start with a simple, bold, commonsense stand: abolish government programs that don’t work.Finding a list of such government waste is surprisingly easy: Every few years, the Office of Management and Budget subjects each government program to the analysis of a something called the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) . And, according to OMB, fully 20 percent of all federal programs are definitively ineffective or have no way to measure what they attempt to accomplish.
See A Quick Fix for Slashing Govt Bloat by Eli Lehrer, April 28, 2010.
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