President Obama was on the stump in Ohio last month claiming to have discovered a successful federal job training program in the town of Elyria. This deserves congratulations. As millions of unemployed Americans can attest, a federal job training program that puts people back to work is hard to find.

There are no fewer than 49 federal job training programs administered by nine agencies that cost taxpayers some $14.5 billion...

Ronald Reagan liked to quip that only in government is failure rewarded with more money. Witness the U.S. Postal Service, which the Senate has voted to give another $34 billion while delaying reforms that would save money. If today's Senate had been around a century ago, the Pony Express would still be delivering the mail.

The Postal Service is losing $25 million a day as more communication goes electronic, and...