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Consolidation of the U.S Federal System
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Consolidation of the U.S Federal System
I would favor for the greater consolidation of the U.S federal system. The main reason for favoring greater consolidation is the huge savings that will be brought by it since fragmentation and redundancies of the U.S federal system waste billions of dollars annually. Fragmentation causes a lot of duplication which results to the massive losses of money. According to a research by the General Accountability Office (GAO), it found 32 cases whereby the various parts of the federal government such agencies, initiatives and offices have overlapping objectives or simply doing the same job for the same populations (Starling, 2011). For instance, a minimum of 23 different federal agencies operate hundreds of programs that support the same course of renewable energy. Government agencies spend billions on new mapping data without consulting with other agencies that could have the same data. Thirteen agencies fund 15 separate financial literacy programs every year at a total cost of 30 million dollars.
According to GAO, these duplications, inefficiencies and redundancies cost the tax payers of America tens of billions of dollars every year. Greater consolidation to eliminate the duplications and inefficiencies in the federal system could result to reaping of massive savings. Since the budget deficit has repeatedly breached the 1 trillion dollars level, the waste of the fragmented and redundant federal system has become a concern (Starling, 2011). With greater consolidation in the federal system, the huge wastage of U.S tax payers’ money is likely to trigger the decrease of the budget deficit. The consolidation will ensure centralization of information or data where agencies can search and discover information that they need instead of using resources to collect data that has already been collected. Consolidation of agencies will also help to ensure that they are not competitive with each other hence cooperation and coordination.
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Starling, G. (2011). Managing the public sector. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
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