{"id":1480,"date":"2011-03-02T01:36:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T06:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2011-03-02T01:40:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T06:40:50","slug":"federal-governments-duplicate-programs-make-dupes-out-of-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Federal Government’s Duplicate Programs Make Dupes Out of Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From: Reason<\/a><\/p>\n

Peter Suderman<\/a> | March 1, 2011<\/p>\n

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Why fund a wasteful government program once when you can fund it twice\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor, for that matter, 82 times? According to a\u00c2\u00a0report<\/a> on duplication and overlap in the federal government released by the Government Accountability Office today, the U.S. government has 82 distinct programs to improve teacher quality (which, judging from our schools, is clearly working quite well). Many of those programs \u00e2\u20ac\u0153share similar goals,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to the report, yet \u00e2\u20ac\u0153there is no governmentwide strategy to minimize fragmentation, overlap, or duplication among these many programs.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Which probably helps explain how we got so many programs designed to do the same damn thing in the first place.<\/p>\n

Teacher quality programs were just one area in which the GAO found significant duplication at the federal level. Indeed, the whole thing reads like a nightmare version of\u00c2\u00a0a Pete and Repeat joke<\/a>. According\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s summary of the report, the U.S. government has \u00e2\u20ac\u015315 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more than 20 separate programs to help the homeless, and 80 programs for economic development.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Eggs are given double scrutiny:<\/p>\n

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From: Reason Peter Suderman | March 1, 2011 Why fund a wasteful government program once when you can fund it twice\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor, for that matter, 82 times? According to a\u00c2\u00a0report on duplication and overlap in the federal government released by the Government Accountability Office today, the U.S. government has 82 distinct programs to improve teacher quality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}