[Updated 1/4/2019]
Greetings to all from central New Jersey on this sunny but cold early January morning.
During my campaign for last year’s presidential election, in my platform, specifically in Section I.-B., I mentioned my plan to reduce the size of the federal government bureaucracy. As I was scanning email and commentaries this fine morning I came across something as I repurposed a little night music by Mozart to keep my mood up.
The object of my reading was the Government Accounting Office’s (GAO) 2016 Annual Report to Congress on waste and inefficiency in the federal government. The GAO is the independent auditing arm of government that evaluates how the federal government acquires and disburses taxpayer revenue, evaluates efficiency and effectiveness of those activities, settles government bidding contract disputes, investigations alleged improper activities, and so forth and so on, and on, and on, and on…
