What one Washington veteran said about GAO...
“GAO has its own agenda. It just recently advocated more climate programs. Now it is urging Congress to adopt harmful changes to crop insurance. What insurance system do you know takes action to reduce good risk in the risk pool? That’s what GAO urges. That will be punitive to producers excluded from crop insurance while hurting the producers left in the pool who will pay higher premiums. That’s low hanging fruit in understanding how insurance works. The proposed cuts to private sector delivery don’t bother to consider the deep cuts from the 2011 SRA that continue. If Congress is serious about saving money and reforming, it should seriously consider eliminating GAO. That’s not hyperbole. The agency simply has not lived up to its purpose. It’s just another opinion rather than a serious and sober analysis of how to achieve efficiencies within the constructs of the law decided by Congress.”
