With partisanship and gridlock blocking any significant changes to the federal budget, it is time for Congress to take a new, fresh approach to reducing the deficit. Rather than just seeking a massive overhaul of the federal government, work can be done right now to find billions of dollars for deficit reduction by identifying ways to “save a billion here and raise a billion there”.
“Billion Dollar Chump Change” is a groundbreaking series of public policy recommendations by acclaimed Washington, D.C. lobbyist, Mark Guimond. This book is a guide for the United States Congress to achieve savings of more than $273 billion dollars by finding billions of dollars of “chump change” that can make a dramatic difference in deficit reduction.
Congress was to have started real deficit reduction with the creation of its new “Super Committee” - the “Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction”. This Joint Committee had the limited purpose of reducing “the deficit by at least $1,500,000,000,000 over the period of fiscal years 2012 to 2021”.
To help the Joint Committee achieve its mandate to identify $150 billion in deficit reduction each year, “Billion Dollar Chump Change” provides Mark Guimond’s common-sense recommendations that can provide $27.32 billion annually for deficit reduction. This represents more than 18% of the “Super Committee’s” total goal.
This inspiring work serves as a model for a future in which Congress more actively works with citizens and constituents to find real solutions to government problems.
