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9 votes
$Billions in savings are reported to OMB Annually. Who at OMB manages this? Hold Agency's Accountible for compliance with existing efficiency laws, easily make the deficit disapear! OMB Circular A-131, PL 104-106, and 33 U.S.C. § 2288 (PL 99-662, Sec 911)
4 votes
Anyone checking to see if the $billions in infrastructure work is complying with 33 U.S.C. § 2288, Public Law 99-662, Section 911, Review of
Cost Effectiveness. Says that--During the design of each water resources project which has a total cost of $10,000,000....shall require a review of the cost effectiveness.
9 votes
Consider taxes (lower than current rates) applied to all items purchased...across the board....this way, those who buy big ticket items are taxed, those that don't pay income taxes (ie., drug dealers, etc) will have to pay, if they want to spend any money. An extremely small tax on everything bought is a fair tax, and allow getting rid of income taxes, and make deductions (and the IRS) not necessary.
17 votes
Why bother...they are taxed at extremely high rates...would rather you keep the money, and not furlough workers. Also, look into SES and executive level awards....they are based on the work performed by the staff...and at $25k for Presidential, just ridiculous. Provide a competetive salary and a job....that should be enough. If you want an incentive, provide one to the workforce for providing an efficient govt!
8 votes
Rather than butcher a few....cut the Federal budgets across the board, say 10%...NO EXCEPTIONS...DOD as well....kind of like freezing pay and furloughs for the WHOLE Federal Govt, verses only the "workers", and excluding the managers/ superviors/ Congress/ SES, etc.
6 votes
OMB should have one office devoted to nothing but efficiency in government and performance improvement initiatives...consolidate all Public Laws, and Acquisitions, FPPA, GPRA, etc. into one office....use that office to develop, enforce, and track federal agencies ratings. Low ratings and high efficiency ratings effect budgets.
10 votes
Lets face it, the US Postal Service needs a serious evaluation....FedX, DHL, UPS, far cheaper, more reliable, and used a lot more than USPS. Time for a change.
8 votes
Focus efforts on the area of govt where the most funding is spent....Acquisitions! Penalizing the Govt workforce for trying to be efficient is not the answer. Hold Agencies accountible for efficiency and compliance with existing Laws! Look back at the Federal Procurement Policy Act and see if Fed Govt is complying with the Efficiency requirements (believe there is an OMB office for this)....we're not! Best Value tools ...more »
Focus efforts on the area of govt where the most funding is spent....Acquisitions! Penalizing the Govt workforce for trying to be efficient is not the answer. Hold Agencies accountible for efficiency and compliance with existing Laws! Look back at the Federal Procurement Policy Act and see if Fed Govt is complying with the Efficiency requirements (believe there is an OMB office for this)....we're not! Best Value tools like Value Engineering, Process improvements like Six Sigma, etc get agency and administration attention initially, but then they stop...some of these programs are saving $Billions despite having to fight all the way. Check OMB records on Annual reports...empasize existing laws compliance. If you continue to cut the workforce that ensures compliance, there is no one to mind the store!
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20 votes
Email announcing this years SAVE program empasized how important Federal Workforce is....yet we still face a shutdown, pay freezes, hiring freezes, and deletion of intern programs....how do we retain the best, in this type of environment? Without qualified, top notch federal servants, the govt will continue to deteriorate. You want to save money, and operate efficiently? Recruit the best, invest in the workforce, encourage ...more »
Email announcing this years SAVE program empasized how important Federal Workforce is....yet we still face a shutdown, pay freezes, hiring freezes, and deletion of intern programs....how do we retain the best, in this type of environment? Without qualified, top notch federal servants, the govt will continue to deteriorate. You want to save money, and operate efficiently? Recruit the best, invest in the workforce, encourage intern programs to grow the future workforce, retain those who have the knowledge, and incentivise quality improvement programs and performance.
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59 votes
Submitted many different ideas, yet never saw any movement on them....yet for the third year now, I am submitting them again...??? Regardless of the votes, recommend that the ideas be sent to responsible Agencies (ie., OMB) to ask them to follow up on them. You never know, a nickle her and there could equal $Trillions!
5 votes
Either follow this law or delete it.......33 U.S.C. § 2288, Public Law 99-662, Section 911, Review of
Cost Effectiveness of Design:
“During the design of each water resources project which has a total cost of $10,000,000....shall require a review of the cost effectiveness of such design…” The Conference Committee Report states that this review is known as "Value Engineering".
4 votes
OMB Circular A-131, PL 104-106 (VE), and 33 U.S.C. § 2288 (PL 99-662, Sec 911) are continuously proven each year, saving $Billions as reported to OMB Annually. Why don't we enforce existing laws, instead of creating new ones? Holding Agency's Accountible for compliance with these laws, re-emphasis by the Administration that these are important, will easily make the deficit disapear!
