Department of Redundancy Dept.
When I was earning my degree in English composition, I had a professor who taught me the skill of identifying and eliminating repetitious expressions, or what some might call...redundancies.
We see and hear them with such regularity, they've become easy to overlook. Within the last week I've heard the following:
(armed) gunman
(free) gift
(advance) warning
(foreign) imports
(filled) to capacity
(face) mask
There are hundreds of these redundancies that are wasteful and add little benefit to what has been said.
The Federal Government is a wonderful source of needless repetition as well. For example,
(U.S.) Indiana Department of Education
(U.S.) Indiana Department of Labor
(U.S.) Indiana Department of Health
(IRS) Indiana Department of Revenue
(Federal Bureau) Indiana Department of Corrections
We have allowed these costly redundancies to exist for so long, we fail to see the absurdity of such repetition.
Plain & Simple: When you start looking to cut Federal budgets, start with the hundreds of billions of dollars the Federal Government takes annually for services already provided by the states. The savings would add (up) quickly.
We see and hear them with such regularity, they've become easy to overlook. Within the last week I've heard the following:
(armed) gunman
(free) gift
(advance) warning
(foreign) imports
(filled) to capacity
(face) mask
There are hundreds of these redundancies that are wasteful and add little benefit to what has been said.
The Federal Government is a wonderful source of needless repetition as well. For example,
(U.S.) Indiana Department of Education
(U.S.) Indiana Department of Labor
(U.S.) Indiana Department of Health
(IRS) Indiana Department of Revenue
(Federal Bureau) Indiana Department of Corrections
We have allowed these costly redundancies to exist for so long, we fail to see the absurdity of such repetition.
Plain & Simple: When you start looking to cut Federal budgets, start with the hundreds of billions of dollars the Federal Government takes annually for services already provided by the states. The savings would add (up) quickly.
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