Thursday, November 20, 2008

Let's Suggest Changes In Government

I am interested in assisting our newly elected President, Our newly constituted Congress and our soon to be newly Appointed Supreme Court in changing the way our government is run on a day-to-day basis. My motivation stems from a personal experience: early in my legal career, I ended up with a large government contract insuring the water rights into the Everglades, commonly known as The Big Cypress National Preserve. Year after year, at approximately the end of July, I would begin to receive single sheets of paper mailed to my office in bubble envelopes, the type in which one could mail an egg if one wished. I finally inquired as to why I was receiving such wasteful mailings and was told that "if they didn't spend all of the money allocated to the project by the end of September (the governmental fiscal yearend), they wouldn't get more money for the following year". The inefficiency and wastefulness of that response was somewhat wasted on my youth. As our country now faces a severe fiscal test and each of us will be required to endure some pain in the process, I am thinking now might be a good time to suggest changes to our government that will result in more efficiency along with fiscal responsibility. I am not interested in your political leanings; have little time for any negativity toward individuals or the government; and do not wish to do anything beyond the stated goal of this blog. Let's suggest changes that will help save money in governmental operation without a lessening of governmental essential services. May I suggest???

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