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| A FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force |
It's not that big government is all that wonderful and perfect, but at the same time it does things that we need to have done—and sometimes actually does them pretty well. A year's end
Washington Post posting entitled, "
Some things the government got right in 2011," lists four federal programs that "got it right" in 2011 including FEMA's disaster response efforts, the White House's attempts to cut wasteful spending, the federal government's better response time to Freedom of Information requests, and better Federal hiring practices that have led to a shorter time between posting a position and hiring someone to fill it.
For government to work well for us, it needs sufficient funding
and wise management. The solution for improved government is not knee-jerk spending cuts but rather better oversight. That's not to say the government can't stand some spending cuts, but they have to be done wisely and with the aim of strengthening the work of government over all. And that's a prayer. Amen.
