From the article: How Federal Workers Would Save Your Money
The President's
SAVE Awards program
seeks ideas from federal employees on how the U.S. government can save taxpayers money. Whether you are a federal employee or not, you probably have some good ideas on how the government could save money. Share your ideas here. Share Your $$ Saving Idea
Stop
- Simply stop spending more money than you have. Easy. Once everyone realizes there are no more free rides they will become productive.
- —Guest anad
save govt.$$$
- pass law or pres executive order restricting that house members max personnel to 3 employees each while committee chairmen 1 additional and the speaker of the house 3 additional! the senate members 2 maximum employees cmm. heads plus 2 mijority & minority hds plus 3. all mbrs of congress 2 have 1 secretary Not included above. all congressional people pay 20% of their medical costs!!!
- —Guest jaqpc1
Saving tax payers money.
- fdny has an ambulance service that runs the vehicles all night long which is a waste of money, it's true the vehicles run on diesel fuel that saves money. but if the vehicle is constantly running all night long it's creating pollution and it's noisy and its not saving a dime,I suggest that we have electrical plug up post for our ambulance service to keep the oil & fuel from freezing ..it save$$$$$$$$
- —Guest Allen r Ryals
Saving Money Idea
- I work for the Department of Veteran's Affairs Health Administration, I was just assigned the task of ordering items needed for office and medical use. And in putting in order for said items I found that if an item is cheaper at one of our vendor we aren't allowed to purchase from said vendor unless our primary govenment vendor doesn't have the item or if they don't carry enough of the item on hand to provide for us. Then and only then we can go somewhere else. And usually the item to be purchased is 100$ more from our prime government vendor then it is for the exact same item at a different vendor but we aren't allowed to go with the cheaper vendor because it is against our regulation and it will make our prime vendor angry. I think it would SAVE the government way more money if we weren't bound by this rule, because not only would we be able to purchase items cheaper but it would leave more money in our budget to do more things.
- —laura12187
Writer
- People learn and retain information in three primary ways, by manipulation (in other words, hands on), through the experience of others (passive watching and listening), and by actively reading. Government manuals and regulations are full of important information that is unfortunately long and onerous. As a DOI employee, my idea is that for those employees who learn better by listening and following along with a speaker, that the government encourage and teach them to use the synthetic voice, Microsoft Sam, which is part of the operating system in many government PCs. I think this would help those employees retain and recall information better, making them better employees and more valuable to their orgaizations since they would have better recall on important issues. Considering the popularity of audio books, I think this is an idea worth considering for at least a third of the federal workforce.
- —Guest Don
Unemployment/community fix
- Why not make unemployement require 4 hours community service per week or 8 hours per check to qualify for unemployment. It would help out the cities and communities by being cleaner maybe even painting over graffiti. The government is paying people to stay at home why not have those people who are making gov. Money help our communities. It might help city budget by not needing to pay people to clean parks when the unemployed people can do it. Imagine if you would multiply the number of people on unemployment by 4 hours a week that would make our country alot cleaner and comfortable to live in.
- —Guest Ramiro Flores
Congress and Senate pay
- All we have to do is let the States pay the salaries of congress and senators with no benefits from the Federal Reserve. Make it a prison offence to take bribes. Until then and only then will they vote for the States. Change the way they are paid and we will prosper.
- —Guest Darvin Wade
Save money
- Take the benefits away from the people in Washington. Pay just the regular guy. Stop full pay to justices after retirement.
- —Guest Mary
dadster35
- Set up a flat tax of say 8 or 9% and discontinue filing taxes for most of the public.
- —Guest Dan Shaffer
Reduce printing costs
- Print on both sides of paper which would reduce paper costs by 50 percent
- —Guest Gerald Watson
saving money?
- I think that if the politicians,all of them,could take a cut in pay,that would save a bunch of money,Plus why do we continue paying ex-presidents?Didn't they make enough off us while they were in office?They could lay off funding on all the experimental programs for a few years.I believe they are all overpaid.For the last 25 years i have worked as a waitress,raised 3 kids,buying own home.on my 2nd car loan payments,If i can do this on 2.25 an hr. plus tips,I think the gov't officials could get by on less.
- —Guest guest
Discontinue Issuing Govt Drivers Lisence
- Use regular state-issued lisences and focus on training and safety, instead of unnecessary and useless paperwork
- —Guest saabara
high technology in finding the enemy.
- America is to smart of a country to seek out our enemies the old fashion way, with the killing and maiming of our young men and woman.We should bring as many home as soon as possible.If we take 20% of the money we spend on conventional weapons and put it into high tech devices,like a bullet the size of a 16/oz. bottle of pop,when fired from a unmanned fighter can take out the area of a baseball field. Each clear & silent drown will have 10 per. wing.Enough fire power to bring down 1/4 of a mountain.We can make a device that can pinpoint were a shot has come from.And for are foot soldiers a remote control hover craft about the size of a cut in half basketball,to go ahead of the troops to clear the way of traps.We can build something the size of bugs that can get into all our enemies camps and know there every move.We can get young men and woman with with high I.Q.s to go to special schools and teach them this new technology.We can call the school [I.S.P.Y.U] I Shall Punish You U!!!!!!!!
- —futerthinker
PLAIN & SIMPLE....JUST CUT WASTE
- What is waste: Well we can tell from the performance of our Government they have no idea. JUST DON'T spend on anything that is not constitutionally mandated and that might solve some of the problem. Keep Congress at home and get rid of Reed, Pelosi and the other perverts that are destroying this nation. They are a waste. Get rid of the fancy pensions Congress is paying themselves. Make the President work 24/7 instead of playing 23/7. Give the President an IQ test. Eliminate the EPA. Eliminate about 35% of the other agencies in Government, for they are useless. Sponsor a Constitutional Amendment which requires the Federal Government work within certain spending limits and no more and to provide only for the common defense of the nation. Lastly, please pray for God's mercies to be upon each of us in this nation. Thank you for reading this note.
- —Guest Jerry B
thinker
- I know that the government can make and save billions of dollars and make millions of jobs. This country has lost millions of miles of lumber because of forest fires. How we can stop or slow this down is to cut [10] mile patches of forest; separated by 1/2 mile of open gravel covered ground and also in this 1/2 mile you can install 6ft. of plastic water line that can run down the center of the 1/2 mile under ground with the water coming from the flood zones and going to the drought zones all over the U.S.A. Also this water can be used to fight fires This water can be pumped using windmill generators. We can sale the cut lumber to finance the program. I call this my checker board plan to save America. Its your next move Mr. Obama
- —Guest dean wheeler
1-15 of 34Next
