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Gore's 'reinvented'
government is sick
Al Gore’s reinvention
of government apparently included a resurgence of wasteful spending and
lackadaisical bookkeeping bordering on malfeasance. Government agencies
investigating Clinton-Gore Administration spending of taxpayer dollars
found the following:
House Budget Committee: Medicare, $12.6 million in overpayments in 1998;
Supplement Security Income program, $1 billion lost to fraud; HUD, $18
billion in waste.
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA): Medicaid loses an estimated
$17 billion annually to fraud. (HCFA has no plan to investigate these
loses.)
Agriculture Department: $660 million stolen annually from 1996-1998 in
the Food Stamp Program.
General Accounting Office: EPA Superfund Program (clean-up of pollution
sites), $6 of every $10 spent is on support activities, not cleanup; U.S.
Army cannot account for $833 million in shipped inventory.
Contractor Accounting Firm: Department of Education unable to account
for $500 million in unawarded contracts and has $6 billion dollar discrepancy
with Treasury Department.
Small Business Administration: $56 million lost on loans liquidated in
1994 due to errors in liquidation process.
House and Senate Leadership: Federal regulations cost taxpayers from $230
billion to more than $700 billion annually.
Irrespective of this estimation, the Clinton-Gore Administration refuses
to require the federal government to analyze the cost/benefit ratio for
each agency, or for their programs, rules and regulations.
By contrast, if you want to drain a pond, you must submit an environmental
impact statement.
Mr. Gore’s idea of “reinventing government” has simply
made it more inefficient, ineffective and wasteful. Gore does not deserve
our support in November.
William Fielder
Peachtree City
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