June 11, 2010 1:46PM 

# 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:

- Downsizing’s new [Department of Transportation](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/transportation) website is up and running!
- A new essay on “[Overpaid Federal Workers](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/overpaid-federal-workers)” is also up and it’s already generating a lot of buzz in the media.
- [Amtrak’s](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/amtraks-financial-shenanigans) reputation for financial shenanigans lives on.
- Kudos to the *Washington Post* for pointing out what we’ve been saying for a while: “[regime uncertainty](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/wash-post-cites-%E2%80%98regime-uncertainty%E2%80%99)” is stifling the economy’s ability to recover.
- President Obama’s lieutenants have instructed federal agencies to come up with spending cuts equal to five percent of their discretionary budgets for fiscal year 2012. 2012? [Why wait?!?!](http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/why-wait-cut-spending)

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