The Obama Administration just announced the appointment of a new budget-cutting czar (my term, not theirs), Nancy Killefer, to eliminate waste and inefficiency in the Federal budget.
The key phrase (from an AP story), for our purposes: "As he named Killefer, Obama promised to scour the federal budget to eliminate what doesn't work and improve what does to 'put government on the side of taxpayers.' He said: 'We can no longer afford to sustain the old ways when we know there are new and more efficient ways to getting the job done.'"
I'd like to suggest she start with freezing all new military weapons programs, to give her time to figure out which ones to stop entirely (the JSF? SDI? the occupation of Iraq?).
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