SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Every year at numerous bases throughout the CONUS, I see these “Summer Hire” and “Summer Intern” programs. Most of the kids who are “hired” for these programs are the dependents of civil service employees. In most cases, the amount of work that is obtained from these young people is negligible due to in-processing, badging, training, and other preliminary requirements. In other words, these are rife for nepotism and nothing... more »

Every decade we complete a census of our citizenry, but we don't conduct a census of our government. Every 10 years we should conduct a census of EVERY program and uncover the redundancy, overlaps, and out of date programs that continue to live on and eat budget dollars when the need is either gone or being handled elsewhere. Mission alignment and strategic spending are key, but this is not a process that should be handled... more »

Institutions print out call-outs / change sheets for inmates to view every day. One copy may contain up to 25 pages of entries. As many as 75 copies are made each day for posting in various areas for inmates to read. This accounts for as much as 13125 pages of printed material for one week at one institution. If you two side print the document, it still amounts to 6563 printed pages of material per week for one institution.... more »

'Treat everyone fairly,' should be the only workplace law required.
Provide protected classes with additional educational benefits, but not with favorable hiring and promotion status. Scrap Affirmative Action regulations and practices. You cannot fight discrimination with discrimination. Regardless of how the Fed Gov words these laws, policies and regs, they're are discriminatory - and expensive - and ineffective.... more »

It is very nice that Trudy Givens got to meet the President and now the Fed Gov is going paperless, but there are other good ideas being brought to your attention. More than one of these suggestions should be reviewed, studied and implemented. Waste, fraud and abuse are being identified and should be acted upon. The Federal Government is a massive burden that ‘we the people’ are having difficulty supporting and things... more »

Other programs cause massive frustration for millions of people with very little payback (how much will we really save by reducing the per diem tables?)

Once Operation New Dawn draws to a close, that will save us $3B per week (according to cost of war.com), but even if it's only $1B per week (seriously, 1 billion per week?) that'll fix the debt more than all the solar lights and recycled plastic (not that those programs... more »

There is no reason why the gov't should be paying for free flu shots when most employees have access to health care thru their jobs and the majority of these plans offer free or reduced price flu shots as part of their coverage. In addition, most feds are outside of the "high risk" population.

An across the board freeze on Federal Government production and other bonuses should be implemented immediately. If most government programs that deliver benefits are backlogged, why are we still awarding bonuses to Federal Employees? For example,Veterans who receive compensation benefits for service connected disabilities have not had a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) in many years; Federal Employees at the Veterans... more »

$255 paid to a survivor won't even cover the flowers, but the administrative cost to pay that amount is significant. While $255 won't help anyone in an impactful way, the cumulative cost to government is great.