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When conservatives finally get back into power: an Idea on government waste

By: kyle8 (Diary)  |  May 4th, 2010 at 06:38 AM  | 

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I would like to see lawmakers try to introduce legislation of this type: If any one, or group of persons, either in or out of the government, find any sort of waste, fraud, abuse, or duplication in the federal government, they need to present a paper outlining the problem with a possible solution.

Then an agency of the justice department created for this reason, is ordered to immediately begin to put the solution, or a better one, into place. Meaning they could order other departments of the government to change their procedures or stop certain practices.

Then, the person or persons who presented the report will be rewarded, let us say, 3% of the savings for the next ten years. That could be a whole lot of money.

Furthermore the DOJ will see their funding increase and will receive bonuses, the more Federal money they save. This sets up a case of the government fighting itself, which is a good thing.

It should be noted that something like this was done before, way back in the civil war, and it worked pretty well.

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  • acat

    Back when I was a young kitty working as a coder, there were a couple attempts to “incentivise” good practices. The quality testing group got a free lunch for every bug they identified. The developers got a free lunch for every identified bug they fixed.

    The coders and testers all knew each other, it was a fairly small shop, and it didn’t take long for a little “gaming of the system” to set in. A coder would insert a bug and mention to his friend in the testing group “hey, try this”… and the bug would be identified. Free lunch for QA. The coder would then remove “his” bug, and re-test. Free lunch for the coder.

    While I don’t think this is likely to work in your suggestion, D.C. is a rather larger shop after all, the possibility is there … suggestions about “incentivising” must be careful to not incentivise gaming of the system, eh?

    Mew

  • Achance

    We’ve already seen what this and any other Democrat administration does to turbulent Inspectors General who get crossthreaded with important constituents. Likewise federal auditors only audit “enemies of the state” during a Democrat administration. Republicans seem all to reticent to make waves so their efforts in this regard have been at best half-hearted.

    Most true waste, fraud, and abuse is only visible to someone inside of or doing business – or trying to- with the government. If you rat somebody off, even if that person gets fired and prosecuted, you become damaged goods and will never be promoted or never get the contract or grant. Nobody will ever consider whether you were right, you will have committed the greatest sin in goverment by causing controversy, and that’s true in both Democrat and Republican administrations, perhaps even moreso in Republican administrations.

  • acat

    … alas, they’re so far in the tank for the Dems that there’s almost no chance of the Mostly Senile Media going after a Dem the way they’ve gone after Repubs, especially conservative Repubs, for decades.

    This goes beyond “having a bias” and into “abdication of duty” and “malfeasance”…

    Mew

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    The law could attempt to isolate the department that oversees this as much as possible from the administration or congress.

    It isn’t good enough anymore to just say, Oh we tried to do something before, and now with give up.