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You liberals and the media loved to tout all the things Obama said he was going to do. Yet when he doesnt, or does the opposite, you say nothing.
One would think, given the economic problems we've been facing, if there ever was a time to go through the budget, that time has been each year of the past five. And while Obama is whining about the Tea Party, not only has he failed on his promise, there hasnt been a budget passed in years.
Oh, I know, I know....its all the Tea Party's fault. Those crazy loons who want to face and deal with our problems now, instead of kicking the can down the road over and over and over. How crazy of them...
"I am not a Democrat who believes that we can or should defend every government program just because it's there," Obama said during a campaign event in Green Bay, Wis.
Obama pledged to create a "high-performance team" to evaluate every federal agency and office. After such reviews, he said, "We will fire government managers who aren't getting results, we will cut funding for programs that are wasting your money, and we will use technology and lessons from the private sector to improve efficiency across every level of government -- because we cannot meet 21st century challenges with a 20th century bureaucracy."
Obama's campaign released a plan stating that "in many areas of the federal government there is too much Washington bureaucracy -- too many layers of managers, and too much paperwork that does not contribute to directly improving the lives of the American people. At the same time, there are too few workers on the front lines in local offices around the country."
In the plan, Obama pledged to "thin the ranks of Washington middle managers, freeing up resources both for deficit reduction and for increasing the number of frontline workers."
The plan also seeks to "eliminate wasteful redundancy" in federal programs. "Obama will conduct an immediate and periodic public inventory of administrative offices and functions and require agency leaders to work together to root our redundancy," the plan states.
Under the plan, Obama and vice presidential nominee Joseph Biden would set up a "SWAT team" in the White House to work with agency leaders and the Office of Management and Budget that would be "composed of top-performing and highly paid government professionals" and be headed by a new chief performance officer reporting directly to the president.
So Obama didn't live up to a minor 2008 campaign promise. Don't vote for him in 2012.
Combing through the bureaucracy to cut redundant programs is only a minor promise if you don't care at all about government waste and inefficiency. Anyway, he promised it 2012 as well.
"I am not a Democrat who believes that we can or should defend every government program just because it's there," Obama said during a campaign event in Green Bay, Wis.
Obama pledged to create a "high-performance team" to evaluate every federal agency and office. After such reviews, he said, "We will fire government managers who aren't getting results, we will cut funding for programs that are wasting your money, and we will use technology and lessons from the private sector to improve efficiency across every level of government -- because we cannot meet 21st century challenges with a 20th century bureaucracy."
Obama's campaign released a plan stating that "in many areas of the federal government there is too much Washington bureaucracy -- too many layers of managers, and too much paperwork that does not contribute to directly improving the lives of the American people. At the same time, there are too few workers on the front lines in local offices around the country."
In the plan, Obama pledged to "thin the ranks of Washington middle managers, freeing up resources both for deficit reduction and for increasing the number of frontline workers."
The plan also seeks to "eliminate wasteful redundancy" in federal programs. "Obama will conduct an immediate and periodic public inventory of administrative offices and functions and require agency leaders to work together to root our redundancy," the plan states.
Under the plan, Obama and vice presidential nominee Joseph Biden would set up a "SWAT team" in the White House to work with agency leaders and the Office of Management and Budget that would be "composed of top-performing and highly paid government professionals" and be headed by a new chief performance officer reporting directly to the president.
This was campaign rhetoric that was spewed as the financial meltdown was unfolding.
Nonetheless, it's been 5 years.....
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