http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/09/hug-a-tree-shred-government-forms/
Basically, this editorial talks about the massive amount of waste that is created and time that is spent by the government on conducting pages and pages of surveys. It says that The Office of Management and Budget (hey we just learned about that!) has 8,871 of these certified federal surveys, which results in 9,824,120,791 hours per year filling them out. The editorial wrote, "This busywork is the equivalent of a full-time work force 4.9 million strong doing nothing but filling out government paperwork ... it sucks an estimated $60 billion in annual productivity out of the economy." This, I feel, is very ineffective. Spending billions of dollars in, for the most part, useless surveys is a waste of time. The editorial said that the economy loses $29 billion in productivity because of the time and paperwork spent filling these out. This loss is huge, especially with the economy the way that it is. If the government stopped dealing with these surveys altogether, or cut out some of the paperwork/ really unnecessary surveys (such as for example,number of individuals who chose not to have a wire-line telephone), the workforce and in turn, the economy could really benefit. Not to mention the environment.
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