Fiscal Cliff and Cutting Corruption

There's been a lot of talk lately about the fiscal cliff and how to avoid tax rate hikes while still not adding too much money to our national deficit. An Emerging Idea out of the Utne magazine deals with cutting corruption out of the budget. The Green Scissors Campaign identifies programs that waste money and harm the government. Recently, the group presented the public with a plan for $700 billion in bipartisan budget cuts. While it would be ridiculous to think Congress would pass all ideas included in such a budget, it is a positive step for an organization to lay out the cuts it would like to see and make public record of the programs it views as wasteful or damaging. If more organizations did this I wonder if the lawmakers would have such a difficult time coming to a consensus over actions to take.