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I just had my annual review at work and I gotta say it went pretty well. The Mission Statement for the company reads, “Ultimate service, superior performance, and positive impact” and three of the four categories on the evaluation form are directly related to that statement. The 4th category is: United Supermarkets Standard of Excellence. One of the criterions in the Superior Performance category reads, “generates profitability, looks for ways to save time, money, etc”. I was rated 5+ with a 5 being “the WOW factor”. Stay with me, I‘m getting close to my point here. During my 30+years in public service, I was the most proud of my accomplishments in finding efficiencies to save tax-payer dollars, and it has now carried over into my current career in the grocery business. Several dictionary web sites define efficiency (cies) as the “ability to produce a desired effect, product, etc. with a minimum of effort, expense, or waste; quality or fact of being efficient; the ratio of effective work to the energy expended in producing it”. And now for my point – can President Obama now walk his talk? Or will he be just another politician making promises he can’t keep nor has no intention of keeping? I have seen so much in-efficiency in government during my working life that I have to wonder why Obama and McCain haven’t made more effort promoting the concept of reducing government spending by finding efficiencies. Personally, in lieu of another stimulus check, I would like to see an administration save me some money. My suggestion to our new President would be to get an ‘ordinary Joe’, an everyday working stiff, as one of his advisers, and go after all the in-efficiency in BIG government and really impress me.