The most dangerous waste in government is so small that most people have never thought of it. Like how bureaucrats use their printers in the office.
The government can generate substantial savings by reining in superfluous printing, according to a study released on Tuesday. ... the government spends nearly $1.3 billion annually on printing. Of that, about $440 million -- more than four times the amount President Obama recently asked agency managers collectively to eliminate from their administrative budgets -- is spent on pages that don't need to be printed, the survey found.
Over a third of pages printed are thrown out the same day they come off the printer.
Is the government more wasteful than the private sector? If you work for a company in the real economy, ask yourself if your boss would let you waste 35% of your printing budget. There's your answer.
Hat tip to Senator Coburn's "Pork Report."
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