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May 16, 2012


The study of the study to determine whether there are too many studies.   click here to subscribe to the eddobloggo RSS feed


 
The decidedly non-conservationist Old Lady co-featured herein might have wasted some resources in her quest to catch a swallowed fly but at least she did so on the cheap and without involving the taxpayers -- which is one thing you'll probably never be able to say about government and its bureaucracies.

The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly is like the government doing a study to determine if there are too many studies.


 

 ABC News reports:

The Pentagon was inundated with so many studies in 2010 that it commissioned a study to determine how much it cost to produce all those studies.

Now the Government Accountability Office has reviewed the Pentagon’s study and concluded in a report this week that it’s a flop.

The study of a study of studies began in 2010 when Defense Secretary Robert Gates complained that his department was “awash in taskings for reports and studies.” He wanted to know how much they cost.

Two years later, the Pentagon review is still continuing, which prompted Congress to ask the GAO to look over the Pentagon’s shoulder. What they found lacked military precision.

The GAO found only nine studies that had been scrutinized by the Pentagon review, but the military was unable to “readily retrieve documentation” for six of  the reports.

The Department of Defense’s “approach is not fully consistent with relevant cost estimating best practices and cost accounting standards,” the GAO concluded. In fact, they often did not include items like manpower, the report found.

The Pentagon “partially concurs” with the GAO’s report.

The cost of the study of the study of the studies was not available from the GAO.

The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

sample this song

 

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird.
How absurd to swallow a bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.

Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a cat.
Imagine that, she swallowed a cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a dog.
My what a hog, to swallow a dog.
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat, to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a cow.
I don't know how she swallowed a cow.
She swallowed the cow to catch the dog.
She swallowed the dog, to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly
Perhaps she'll die.

I know an old lady who swallowed a horse...

 

She's dead of course!                        


The study of the study to determine whether there are too many studies.Whatever the uncertain cost of doing all of these studies has been, there is a single certainty that must not be forgotten.  The Department of Defense was left with that many fewer dollars to spend on necessities, leaving Americans that much less defended. 

 

Similarly, for those of you who believe we're already spending too much on defense, every time your own favorite department wastes its resources on frivolous studies there are that may fewer Americans being fed, educated and/or regulated by the federal government.

By not biting the bullet after her unfortunate fly-swallowing the Old Lady eventually did herself in.  Government needs to study this failed model pretty soon or else, perhaps we'll die.

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If this is the Department of Defense, what would Department of Education or HUD look like?

 

brerrabbit

Lafayette, LA Daily Advertiser

[Study hall? -ED]


And froggy smacked her against the wall!! Beards effect on soldiers abilities, DADT, pensions too high, women in the military, how much does the Pentagon pay for a gallon of gas, global warming leads to wars and my favorite was the study of race relations. Has this society become so complicated with so many special interest groups that the Pentagon has to cow-tow to these people?? Sadly, the answer is yes because they are scared. Just my humble opinion.

 

boned_again

Great Falls, MT Tribune


The time has come that someone orders a study to determine why Gates ordered a study of the study of the studies . I want answers!

 

fuguestate

Montgomery, AL Advertiser



 

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