Sev
04-15-2010, 09:28 PM
2 ways to cut the federal deficit and wasteful spending.
The average federal salary is 70,000 a year plus benefits averaging about 40,000 a year. The national American citizen median household income is 50,000.00 with benefits of 9000.00
The question is why should federal wages exceed median of the private sector? It is not demand driven and every salary is a deficit to the nation.
Also when private sector salaries increase federal salaries increase automatically.
The next question is why should elected officials receive salaries in the first place? They should be donating their time to serve the public good.
We are now approaching 2 million federal Employee's.
No federal employee should receive a wage higher than the national household median.
Or have benefits that exceed the national average.
So we have a difference of 51,000.00 dollars a year on average. If the numbers work correctly that is about 110,000,000,000.00
Next.
The Department of Education.
In 1973 there was no Department of education. The Department of the Interior handled educational needs.
In 1973 the Dept of the Interior spent 12 billion on education.
In 1979 the Dept of Education was formed by Pres Carter.
In May of 1980 operations began.
In fiscal year 2009 the department of education spent 103,000,000,000.00 dollars.
Its interesting to note that since the formation the of the Dept of Education, Math scores have only risen 2 points and reading has only risen 1 point.
12 billion a year to 103 billion a year to achieve 2 and 1 increase respectively.
Not a very inspiring achievement.
Test scores for the United States vs other countries have fallen substantially.
Canada for instance has no department of education or any centralization of their educational system and consistently scores higher than the USA.
Could it be that having a decentralized school system generates more innovation?
Abolish the Dept of Education and save another 103,000,000,000.00 a year.
Thus far we have saved 213,000,000,000.00 billion a year in government spending.
No new taxes.
No cuts to Medicaid or Medicare.
Hmmm. We could be onto something.
Perhaps we should look at educational waste.
NY state has what is called "Rubber Rooms" where teachers have to go if they are accused of a criminal charge. They have to show up to receive their salaries. They do not teach.
NYS has over 600 of these rooms. In fiscal year 2009 NYS paid 40,000,000.00 in salaries to teachers in rubber rooms.
Imagine what the institutional waste in public schools is nation wide.
Perhaps we should also consider abolishing the teachers unions and collective bargaining in the public sector as well. After all the teachers unions are all about the receiving and spending of money and not educational innovation.
The average federal salary is 70,000 a year plus benefits averaging about 40,000 a year. The national American citizen median household income is 50,000.00 with benefits of 9000.00
The question is why should federal wages exceed median of the private sector? It is not demand driven and every salary is a deficit to the nation.
Also when private sector salaries increase federal salaries increase automatically.
The next question is why should elected officials receive salaries in the first place? They should be donating their time to serve the public good.
We are now approaching 2 million federal Employee's.
No federal employee should receive a wage higher than the national household median.
Or have benefits that exceed the national average.
So we have a difference of 51,000.00 dollars a year on average. If the numbers work correctly that is about 110,000,000,000.00
Next.
The Department of Education.
In 1973 there was no Department of education. The Department of the Interior handled educational needs.
In 1973 the Dept of the Interior spent 12 billion on education.
In 1979 the Dept of Education was formed by Pres Carter.
In May of 1980 operations began.
In fiscal year 2009 the department of education spent 103,000,000,000.00 dollars.
Its interesting to note that since the formation the of the Dept of Education, Math scores have only risen 2 points and reading has only risen 1 point.
12 billion a year to 103 billion a year to achieve 2 and 1 increase respectively.
Not a very inspiring achievement.
Test scores for the United States vs other countries have fallen substantially.
Canada for instance has no department of education or any centralization of their educational system and consistently scores higher than the USA.
Could it be that having a decentralized school system generates more innovation?
Abolish the Dept of Education and save another 103,000,000,000.00 a year.
Thus far we have saved 213,000,000,000.00 billion a year in government spending.
No new taxes.
No cuts to Medicaid or Medicare.
Hmmm. We could be onto something.
Perhaps we should look at educational waste.
NY state has what is called "Rubber Rooms" where teachers have to go if they are accused of a criminal charge. They have to show up to receive their salaries. They do not teach.
NYS has over 600 of these rooms. In fiscal year 2009 NYS paid 40,000,000.00 in salaries to teachers in rubber rooms.
Imagine what the institutional waste in public schools is nation wide.
Perhaps we should also consider abolishing the teachers unions and collective bargaining in the public sector as well. After all the teachers unions are all about the receiving and spending of money and not educational innovation.