United Liberty
Downsizing Government
Mon, 10/05/2009 - 6:07pm | posted by Jason Pye
Our friends at the Cato Institute, the only think tank in DC dedicate to personal and economic liberty, have launched a new site, DownsizingGovernment.org, committed to cutting waste from the federal budget.
From the press release:
The research on the site also exposes that many public outlays—though vigorously defended by the politicians who created them and the constituencies they purport to help—are remarkably ineffective at achieving their core aims.
“Some people have lofty visions about how government spending can help society,” said Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute and the project leader for DownsizingGovernment.org. “But the essays on this website put aside such bedtime stories about how government programs are supposed to work, and instead focus on how they actually work in the real world.”
DownsizingGovernment.org is an ongoing project that launches today with detailed information on five cabinet-level agencies: Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, and Housing and Urban Development. Subsequent departments will be added as they are completed in the coming months.
The site offers detailed examples of inefficiency, ineffectiveness, redundancy and corruption inside federal government agencies. It provides charts showing federal spending by department, federal aid to states and the number of subsidy programs.
You can follow Downsizing Government on Twitter @DownsizeTheFeds and you can become a fan on Facebook.
Gotta love Democracy, Republicanism, etc. It’s almost as if it’s merely designed to give the impression of representation so people become complacent. “I’ll just vote them out”.
Of course, don’t let the electorate know about Diebold’s senior executive who spent time in prison for writing backdoors in software. Shhhh!
Democracy. May the best liar win!
It’s also a good reason why you shouldn’t believe in a *Republic* period. Democratic systems are a competition in which the best liar is rewarded with the reigns of government. The three worst genocidal maniacs in history were voted into power: Hitler was elected Chancellor, Mao Zedong was elected commissar in the Third Congress of the CPC, Stalin was elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee in 1917, etc.
If you give people a chance to take power through words, you will inevitably hand power to the most efficient sociopaths who can fool everyone with lies. That’s how Mao, Hitler, and Stalin took power.