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I have an idea... should we issue "increase funding" for programs that WORK... I was thinking about the SEC incompetence and flat-out borderline criminal behavior with Madoff... should we ONLY fund programs that meet or exceed goals? Take for instance, if the SEC's purpose is regulate industry and they only prosecute "X" amount whereas an independent analysis shows they are missing "Y" percent, and if X/Y ratio gets to a certain percentage they lose funding and have to work harder to regain that funding... and if the X/Y ratio is reduced twice a year then management is entirely replaced... A sort of "pay for performance"... right now a LOT of government entities don't do a dang thing to curb crime or waste of taxpayer money... along with PayGo, should we have a Pay for Performance for our federal government...
Another example can be used with Medicaid... say in 2008 there "X" number of recipients... if you don't CUT the "X" number down each year then you lose a percent of federal funding (of course regulations are in place so that states don't just "dump" patients)... An incentive for the state to better their "populace" with hard numbers...
What do you think?
Finally for Politicians, every time they add a "Pork barrel project" to another legislation, they get "X" amount reduced of their states Federal money... That would force them to request funding only when their state absolutely needs it... If they decrease GENERAL taxes in the state, they receive an increase in their state's funding (although, one might say the federal government will have to increase their taxes to give extra funding)... I would say the more money they are able to save with a Pay for Performance then we get a more fit and trim government... eliminate waste from the government and ensure the government works for its citizens and not the corporations... If our jobs and lives are based on a Pay for Performance, why shouldn't our government be held to the same standard...
Great sounding idea...obviously would go over like a lead balloon. See how politicians got all uppity when people started holding them accountable and they were reminded of who works for who during town hall meeting time? Yeah, exactly.
It'll just take some tooth-pulling, though. People stopped caring as long as they were able to make a buck flipping houses and whatnot and that indifference isn't reversed overnight.
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