Nobody wants to go after the duplicate agencies?

The GAO reported that there is $300 billion in dublicate government agencies. This would save $3 Trillion over 10 yrs and you don't have to cut Military or Medicare or Medical. Yahoo news reported that 270,000 federal employee's will retire in 2012. You could backfill the layed off workers in the retiree positions so they is minimal impact on the people in the agencies you cut. Isn't this common sense that you have to reduce waste in government?|||It's "common sense" until you start looking into the details of which 270,000 federal employees are retiring, what skills they take with them, whether the remaining workforce has the necessary skills, whether the remaining workers are properly positioned to continue the work, and whether they would be willing to do the additional work without being offered a raise, etc.|||I agree with the basic idea that if most government agencies closed their doors forever it would be unlikely that anyone not employed by those agencies would notice.





The problem is ... NO politician wants to be linked to any act of government that could be legitimately linked to "killing" jobs. Even redundant jobs, even jobs that the government pays someone to do that serve no governmental function.





Any politician that allowed their office to be linked to such an act would be feeding ammunition to their opponents in the next election. "Senator Blowhard of NY helped pass legislation that closed 15 governmental agencies in this state. Over 500 people lost their jobs as a direct result of Senator Blowhard's efforts ... let's work together and end Senator Blowhard's job ... Elect Tom Dicknharry to the Senate ... I will not cut government jobs, and that's a promise!"





Paid for by The committee to elect Tom Dicknharry to Senate, add designed by Dewey, Cheatham and Howe political consultants.





Even if those 500 jobs were all in the "Department of Paperclip Design Approval" the statement would ring true enough to damage any politician's career, possibly end it!