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National Performance Review & Federal Government

In September 1993, the National Performance Review (NPR), under the direction of Vice President Al Gore, completed its six month review of the operations of the federal government and recommended wide-sweeping reforms in the way government conducts business. This research examines the recommendations as offered in NPR's report, entitled "From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government that Works Better & Costs Less," and analyzes its potential impact on the budgetary process and the growth of government.

Public confidence in government has been steadily falling since the New Deal era, reaching record lows in recent years. In response to survey questions in 1958, 43% of Americans felt the federal government "wastes a lot of money." In 1988, that figure rose to 63% of Americans. By 1992, the average American believed that the federal government wastes 48 cents of every tax dollar. In 1958, only 23% of Americans said that "you cannot trust government to do right most of the time." By 1992, a full 80% of Americans did not trust the federal government most of the time (National Performance Review, 1993).

The widespread disenchantment with American government stems partly from burgeoning federal budget, with a debt in excess of $4 trillion. Even with such a massive federal budget, there does not seem to be enough funds to go around. The federal government spends $25 billion on welfare, $27 billion on food stamps, and $13 billion on public housing-yet more Americans fall into poverty every year (National Performance Review, 1993). Government services are being slashed, while at the same time taxes are being raised and existing governmental bureaucracies are consuming ever-large budgets. Although the number of federal employees has actually declined somewhat through the decade of the 1980s, real spending by the federal government has increased more than 40% (American Survey, 1993, p. 21)

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