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The following is an except from an article I wrote on Examiner.com: "From now until the 2012 elections, I am going to write a series of articles with the express purpose of trying to get the average reader to ... Obama will get serious about debt after 2012 elections
Obama’s political chips have value to him until after 2012. Then, they don’t matter anymore. He will be off to becoming a corporate millionaire and his wife will tend to philanthropy. Obama tends to politically... Eliminate the Department of Commerce
Mr. President, you are off to a good start, but you missed a low hanging opportunity. Keep the National Institute of Standards and Technology and eliminate the rest of the Department of Commerce. Then people will... Obama budget to cut $1.1 trillion in deficits
"President Obama on Monday will propose a 2012 federal budget that the White House says will cut deficits by $1.1 trillion over 10 years.The president's request calls for a mix of strategic spending to boost U.S. competitiveness and selective belt-tightening intended as a... Blind to opportunity, Republicans searching
When you talk about cutting government expense, you are talking about reducing government employment and reducing government acquisition costs. The aim is to get the highest return on costs – highest government... Reducing the deficit and improving government performance
Size and expense of government How much of the expense of government is driven by labor cost versus procurement acquisition expense? Why is defense spending off target? These are questions to be posed to... Is Joe Scarborough running for something?
“I like Joe,” could be the campaign theme. Yes, he is a Republican but he is also in the middle, and could be overlapping with Democrats, in the middle. The Obama-Republican stimulus bill, the Bush-era... Pig in a poke: new poll
I am wearing out the metaphor, but it holds. We the People bought a pig in a poke with the midterm elections. We had lousy choices and did the best we could and still have a lousy government. Decisions are driven... Big economic tweak gets bipartisan support
Finally, America’s government is coming together, rallying around sensible economic and financial policy. Let’s hope that the momentum builds as a new Congress gets set up and the President concentrates on... How government is supposed to work
"Make it work." Tim GunnEzra Klein’s Wonbook in the Washington Post today presents an example of how government is supposed to work. The fiscal commission initiated by the President is actually producing... Align the government with what we can afford
Needed now is a government, President and Congress, that will align the nation’s fiscal priorities within our economic capacity. Elderly, women and children first on the social responsibility list Affordable... Caught On Tape: Mounted Police Charge Whitehall Protesters, video
The following video documents an unreported cavalry charge from the Metropolitan Police on the Student Protesters at Whitehall on the 24th of November 2010. Students and academic staff lined the streets, some as... Government double bookkeeping
Government departments and agencies cook their books.
They have funded programs and unfunded liabilities. The unfunded liabilities place a multiple on debt obligations and therefore drive the deficit in unseen ways.... Quality of life pegged to deficit
Ezra Klein offers a Wonkbook Rorschach test today on the deficit. “How do you feel,” he poses? First off, looking at the deficit is looking at the symptom of a problem. The problem is 1) we spent too much and... Averaging the answer to the deficit problem
In a democracy, solving problems is about finding the new norm, a process that I call averaging. When you are driving down the freeway at top legal speed, you have your eyes on the road and your hands upon the... 
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