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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Research on what works, grants to implement effective programs[/quote]

That does not sound inherently governmental. Maybe it should be a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) like Oakridge or the SEI.[/quote]

??? That is most of what government does, is dispense and manage grants and contracts to the consulting firms who oversee the implementation. When Reagan "cut government" all he did was create an outsource mechanism that made our "government smaller" but booned a huge consulting industry that makes government many times less effective and many times more expensive. If we really wanted to cut government spending, we would go back to the way it was in the 1970's and let the government hire more people to do the actual work and stop outsourcing to recent college grads being billed out at $250,000 a year but being paid $80,000 a year for $25,000 of value.[/quote]

Research on what works is specifically what I’m talking about. Government is not great at that — hence the FFRDCs.[/quote]

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