December 3, 2010 2:57PM 

# This Week in Government Failure 

By [Tad DeHaven](https://www.cato.org/people/tad-dehaven) 

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Over at [Downsizing Government](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/), we focused on the following issues this week:

- The Obama administration adopts Cato’s [federal employee pay](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/obama-adopts-cato-pay-proposal) proposal.
- [Social Security Disability Insurance](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/disability-benefits-unsustainable): What was supposed to be a narrowly tailored program to help individuals who could no longer work has blossomed into a gigantic budgetary burden that acts more like an unemployment program.
- [Rep. Jack Kingston](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/rep-kingstons-spending-cut-plan) (R‑GA) has some good ideas for reforming the House Appropriations Committee.
- The [Fiscal Commission’s report](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/bright-spots-fiscal-commission-report) provides a useful menu of reform options that incoming members of a more conservative Congress can pursue next year.
- The Government Accountability Office reports that the [Federal Aviation Administration’s new air traffic control system](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/huge-cost-overrun-faas-nextgen) could ultimately cost *four times more than originally estimated.*

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