Washington doesn’t normally do thrift. Governing is a hard job and the people who do it like to pamper themselves. Consider President Obama who recently traveled to Europe on government business and took along 45 vehicles and a team of 900 people. One or two of whom had a bit too much to drink and were sent home.

Still, even the government can find ways to trim a little and save some money. It might, for instance, dial back on the number of limousines in its fleet of vehicles. As Eric Katz of Government Executive reports,

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