Efficient Governing


For over 50 years I have observed trillions of dollars of government waste. For example a resort I once worked for got $400,000 in Covid relief money even though they had their most profitable year. 

Axel van Trotsenburg, senior managing director of the World Bank, recently stated. "If we could repurpose the trillions of dollars being spent on wasteful subsidies and put these to better, greener uses, we could together address many of the planet's most pressing challenges. Such abuses include;

*Fraud: Our government loses countless taxpayers dollars from fraud and abuse.


*Corporate subsidies: The government wastes hundreds of billions of dollars in unnecessary subsidies to corporations each year.


*Inefficient healthcare spending: The U.S. has one of the highest healthcare spending rates per capita in the world, yet still has poor outcomes compared to other developed countries.


* Defense spending: The United States spends more on national defense than any other country because of exorbitant Contracting costs.


*Redundant programs: There are many government programs that duplicate the efforts of other programs, resulting in wasted resources that must be streamlined.


Another  example is our health insurance fraud which costs us $36 billion dollars each year. Continued mismanagement and obsolete inefficiencies threaten our prosperity. Unless we curtail this outrageous waste we the people will suffer and our freedom will be threatened.



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