TechStat works, does it not? And the fact that DOD has no programs, everything is green for DOD, which means they are ducking having TechStat work on 20 to 30 programs that are in trouble.

If we could actually execute what GAO has outlined, you are talking $300 billion over the next 10 years.

We ought to be shooting for a whole lot more than that.

Just as a little aside, the Federal Government's balance sheet has $86 trillion worth of liabilities, and all the assets in the United States of America are under $80 trillion.

The way you get rid of trillion dollar deficits is a billion dollars at a time.

A 'complete idea' is you do not know, OK? And that is part of the problem.

I am glad to hear those are the kind of decisions--we spent $500 million on a cost-plus contract that got us nothing on a handheld device for the Census, and nobody was held accountable for it, nobody got canned.

We can no longer do these 5-year, $100 million---if I ever see those, those are like an instant TechStat trigger for me.

I know, but the answer is you do not know-- I am not being critical.

We did not come anywhere close to saving $24 billion for the American people.

We are well intentioned. You are well intentioned. But we do not give people the authority to do what we ask them to do.

Putting controls in and making people responsible and accountable is very important, and if the 2020 census is not done online, we ought to shoot ourselves.

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