Stop Government Waste and Corruption

The following is based on my experience in dealing with multiple Federal, State and Local government agencies as an employee of two major corporations, as an Engineering/Business Management Consultant and as a Business Owner:

Newt Gingrich once spoke about the inefficiency of the Federal Governments system of accounting for the expenditure of your tax dollars.

He compared the governments accounting system to the computer programs Federal Express uses to track millions of packages every day. Fed Ex customer can track the location of a shipment anywhere in the world, in seconds.

Newt described the government accounting as “Men with green eye shades sitting at high top desks recording data with quill pens.”

 A dramatic statement for effect, but I got the point. I realized that the real point is that the Federal Government would apparently be happy to keep spending “cloudy”. The murkiness covers turf building, boondoggles and corruption.

The recent activities of the GSA certainly would support my conclusion. Expensive “parties” in Hawaii and Las Vegas have been reported. It has also been reported that “Stay at home” employees, doing who knows what, are also being paid for travel! What are they doing and where are they going?

Another ploy is setting up dummy businesses and then awarding contracts to the dummy business.

Successful privately owned businesses are constantly vigilant and must prevent waste. Every non-productive or stolen dollar steals the profit of ten dollars in sales. Well run companies prosper. Poorly run companies who do not audit, by internal and external people, go bankrupt

Taxpayer money being wasted or stolen is rampant. This has been true for decades. Instead of the government going bankrupt, money is borrowed and taxes are raised.

I have said, many times, we need successful, hard nosed business men/woman running for elected office. They would recognize the need for oversight by both government and non-government audit.

They should only be elected if they have a vetted, proven, honest track record and should only serve a maximum of two terms.

“Stop the waste and corruption” would be an election slogan that would grab my attention.

I sincerely hope you are informed and engaged.

Time is running out.