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Periodically someone rises in Congress and calls for a fight against fraud and waste in government. The idea is always great. but it gives the taxpayer cause to wonder why more pressure in ferreting out waste and corruption can’t be applied on a continuing basis. One ongoing program of fairly-recent vintage that apparently is paying… Continue reading Anti-Fraud Hotline Good Ideo

The Space Shuttle Co1umbia’s brilliant performance in its first spaceflight has opened imaginative vistas for application of the technology in a “new era of space conquest.” Never before had astronauts flown a space ship from orbit to an airport landing. The feat has accelerated talk of expanded space use for defense, telecommunications industry purposes. and… Continue reading Spuce Shuttle Spending Wise

The fable of the little red hen – two versions of it, in fact – occupied center stage during a debate sequence in the Senate prior to the current recess. Sen. William L. Armstrong, R-Colo., a leading proponent in an unsuccessful Republican bid for a 10 percent tax cut, alluded to the little red hen… Continue reading Red Hen Fable Truer Tcdcay

A freshman U.S. senator from Wisconsin is proposing a plan for government to “fire a shot across the bow” of government agency heads and midlevel bureaucrats who are blase about waste. : Sen. Robert Kasten says fthe current estimates of govemment waste, fraud and abuse are as much as $100 billion a year or one… Continue reading Make Agencies Acccuntuble

Domestic and foreign travel at taxpayer expense should be under tight control at all times – but especially during “Lame Duck” periods. This is evident in a General Accounting Office (GAO) study showing “excessive travel” by outgoing administration employees during the November 1980 through January 1981 Lame Duck period. Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-lll., who… Continue reading Le1’s Ax ‘Lume Duck’ Travel

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, recently signed into law by President Carter, is being hailed in business circles and by lawmakers who supported its passage. An outgrowth of a long period of hearings, the act is intended to reduce by 25 percent over three years the volume of reports, time required to fill out… Continue reading Paperwork Act Faces Test

The average employee in the business-industrial community probably has little conception of what his/her employer pays out for staff benefits exclusive of salary. In fact, many would be hard-pressed to even name half the benefits, which range from pensions to coffee break-rest periods. You may be surprised to learn that benefit payments, on the average,… Continue reading ‘Unseen’ Benefits Average $7 17

Despite some internal disputes, the recent New Delhi conference of foreign ministers of non-aligned nations produced support and positive resolves for world peace. A call for withdrawal of “foreign forces” from Afghanistan and demands that the Afghan people be allowed to determine their own destiny free from outside interference highlighted a declaration concluding the four-day… Continue reading Let’s All Work to Avoid Wor

The season to be jolly is also the season when one of America’s most common crimes reaches its peak. Shoplifting, once associated mainly with the holiday season, is a yeararound problem now. Security consultants concede though, that the practice of whisking merchandise from store shelf to purse or pocket still is most common in the… Continue reading Shoplifters Cost us All Money

Those who think we shouldn’t be cutting any more from the defense budget in President Reagan’s latest round of budget trimming should review their sentiments in light of facts revealed by Rep. Les Aspin. The Wisconsin Democrat noted Monday that Pentagon brass are dining very well in five Pentagon dining rooms under a taxpayer subsidy.… Continue reading Cuts Not Deep Enough Yet