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1 hen he would have Congress drift away from trimming social programs and instead would have the government focus its attention on programs ‘‘that do not affect people.”
In addition to subsidy programs, this redirected Tight against waste and inefficiency would spotlight defense, foreign aid, and tax loopholes, among others, as its prime targets.
Perhaps the largest savings could be found in the military budget where cost overruns are the rule and not the exception and run into the billions of dollars each year, he says. Many of the overruns could be prevented to a large extent, says the candidate, with improved planning for weapons expenditures.
Though Mr. Dorrier is a major in the active Army Reserves, he nevertheless says. “There is no reasonable explanation for the hundreds of (expensive) changes to weapons systems. . .Better planing by both the government and its defense contractors could save the taxpayers billions."
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