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Text for items from 111 through 120. 1 Around the world the public sector is under sieg...

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1 Around the world the public sector is under siege: taxpayers

everywhere want better, cheaper government. The message is simple:

tinkering with the system is not good enough. What’s needed is a

4 complete reinvention of government.

Since the federal government initiated the National

Performance Review in 1993, by most accounts progress has been

7 uneven in the implementation of the approaches developed.

The report notes that public confidence in the federal

government has never been lower. The average citizen believes 48 cents

10 of every tax dollar are wasted. Five of every six strongly want

“fundamental change”. Only 20% of the people trust the federal

government to do the right thing most of the time — down from 76 per

13 cent thirty years ago. The national debt now exceeds $ 4 trillion —

$ 16,600 for every man, woman, and child.

There is enormous unseen waste. The Audit Department has

16 found that the Defense Department owns more than $ 40 billion in

unnecessary supplies. The Internal Revenue Service struggles to collect

billions of unpaid bills. A century after industry replaced farming as the

19 country’s principal source of wealth creation, the Agriculture

Department still operates more than 12,000 field service offices, an

average of nearly four for every county in the nation — rural, urban, or

22 suburban.

But the report goes farther:

And yet, waste is not the only problem. The federal government

25 is not simply broke; it is broken. Ineffective regulation of the financial

industry brought us the Savings and Loan debacle. Ineffective education

and training programs jeopardize our competitive edge. Ineffective

28 welfare and housing programs undermine our families and cities.

The conclusion was that the US is suffering the deepest crisis

of faith in government in memory. In past crises, people doubted their

31 leaders on moral grounds. They felt their government was deceiving

them or failing to represent values. Today’s crisis is different: people

simply feel the government doesn’t work.

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