That's because nobody spends someone else's money as wisely as he spends his own. This is especially true in Washington, D.C. where federal agencies are more consumed with preserving their budgets and bureaucratic empires than with results and efficiency. C onsequently, taxpayers pay more for bigger, inefficient and redundant government. A quick snapshot of a few programs exposes some of the problems. Federal spending for drug treatment programs has tripled since 1988, yet the enrollment in these programs has actually dropped.
T here is light at the end of the tunnel.
Republicans in Congress have done a lot of good things lately such as eliminating some 320 federal programs, enacting the first tax cut since 1981 and putting the country on a glide path to a balanced budget. To do this we are focusing on cutting waste and making sure that necessary public services are rendered efficiently. The Results Caucus, a bipartisan coalition of reform-minded members of Congress, will work to implement solutions and end the profligate waste that plagues the federal government. H ere's how the Results Act works. By September 30, every federal agency must, under the force of law, justify its existence to Congress by submitting a five-year plan that lays out real, measurable goals that serve the public interests, not the interests of the bureaucracy.