[silverleaf]

Did obama appoint a “Red-Tape-Cutting-Unnecessary-Regulation-Review Czar?

[aquila48]

6 Billion over 5 years???

Given that the government spends some 3.5 trillion a year (and increasing each year), that would be saving 6 billion out of 18 trillion or .033% or the equivalent of saving $16 if you made $50,000 a year!!

[6ppc]

This is from the Onion...right???

[Busywhiskers]

As I understand the article, they created five more new rules. It wasn’t clear whether they actually eliminated any. Seems like if you are sincere about eliminating regulations and rules you would actually go ahead and do it rather than make more rules about it.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

So let's see: now the Department of Reducing Government Redundancy will be checking up on the Department of Duplicate Government Programs and the Department of Government Redundancy.

[Colorado Doug]

making it a continuing obligation of our government to scrutinize rules on the books to see if they really make sense.

Uh, which rules will they be scrutinizing? Bill of Rights? bothersome stuff like that?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

In other news, Madonna announces steps to restore her chastity.

In other news, the House and Senate announced steps to end death and taxes.

[freekitty]

Is this a joke?

[subterfuge]

Drop. In. The. Bucket.

[GraceG]

This means he is going to take a bunch of smaller govt organisations and then merge them into t6he bigger ones and then later create some new ones to replace the once absorbed later....