Over at the Peter Orszag blog, we get a list of programs being eliminated including this hilariously fine-grained cut designed to convince us that they really have gone line-by-line:
Educational attaché, Paris, France ($632,000). The Department of Education can use e-mail, video conferencing, and modest travel to replace a full-time representative to UNESCO in Paris, France.
Now in the greater scheme of the US federal budget, $632,000 is a tiny amount of money. But as funding to send a single person to work in Paris, doesn’t that seem preposterously high? In these days of high unemployment surely you could find someone willing to shoulder the attaché duties for considerably less than that.
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