Committee Nation

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We are becoming a nation of committees. From the smallest of issues to the most pressing, everything nowadays has to have some sort of committee before anything can get done .. if it ever does. From Fox News ..

The federal government hosts a network of 1,000 advisory panels that consisted of more than 74,000 members last year, and they are becoming increasingly expensive -- statistics kept by the federal government show the cost of running these committees has nearly doubled over the past decade.

Though the staggering number of committees has remained fairly constant during that time, the bill they rack up every year has grown rapidly, from $215 million in fiscal year 2000 to $386 million last fiscal year. The collective budget is projected to top $400 million for the 2011 budget year.

If Congress is serious about tackling spending, maybe they could also take a look at their own process of creating committees and panels. The numbers may be small in comparison, but $386 million is equivalent to the entire tax burden of 38,600 American families. To make matters worse, "A 2010 report showed just 8 percent of committee recommendations had been or will be fully implemented."

Your government at work

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That's what we need ... more committees to recommend more regulations to deprive us of personal freedom. 

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,,,,,, and thats all they end up doing!!