Describe waste in government

Waste in Government—always a nice term, sounds like it means something.

What you will see as you go through these readings is the difficulty of agreement

(as understood through public opinion polls)–what government waste means, or

what we agree upon to exactly go after. The Government Accountability Office

(GAO) report is quite long —you want to read parts of it but not

necessarily the whole thing. What you need to get out of that report is to

understand the specifics associated with going after waste (or in the case of that

report—duplication or overlap).

Talk about the difficulty of agreement on the public side regarding

going after government waste (as you can understand it through the readings

addressing public opinion polls) and then get to specifics on what to go after, why,

and how. A friend (an elected official) jokes about government critics: That

particular person defines a government critic as someone with a driver’s license,

they just don’t know where they are going.