SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Stop funding NPR. The tax dollars allocated to NPR is a small fraction of NPR's funds, but could reduce the deficit. Funding NPR was necessary in its infancy, but it has shown that it can flourish without the amount they get from the federal government.

During the Clinton Administration, a task force existed of employees in each agency who knew how to make government work smarter & cheaper, the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR). Participants were selected for specific skills, & their knowledge of how to get things done within their own agency's beauracries even if they weren't management. Because they worked directly for the White House they had the... more »