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Downsizing the Federal Government
The White House is hinting that its fiscal year 2011 budget due out in February will be “austere.” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs didn’t provide any specifics but recently said that “it will not look as it has in the past." Well that’s a relief because the FY 2010 appropriations process f...
Mark
Mark
All talk at the White House about budgets and all spending when they act. This is not change but spend until we all are going to have to accept a Value added tax.
December 23, 2009 at 2:29pm
Downsizing the Federal Government
There is a lot of talk in the press about the difficulty small businesses are having obtaining credit. President Obama recently admonished bankers for not lending enough to small businesses...
Jodi Smallwood
Jodi Smallwood
Too much credit thats why we are in this mess.
December 23, 2009 at 6:55am
Downsizing the Federal Government
The U.S. Postal Service lost $3.8 billion last fiscal year and expects to lose $7.8 billion this year. That hasn’t prevented employees from indulging in fancy foods and booze on the USPS’s dime. A ...
Downsizing the Federal Government
A couple of weeks ago I discussed a New York Times report on soaring food stamp use. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that cash welfare use in New York under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program started to rise more recently...
Downsizing the Federal Government
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan recently gave a speech in New York in which he spoke of a “new direction in housing.” If there’s one constant with cabinet secretaries, it’s that they all promise that their department will be new and improved. The fo...
Dorothy
Dorothy
Downsize to part-time for congress.
December 20, 2009 at 10:12am
Downsizing the Federal Government
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a story in Wired regarding the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program. ...
Downsizing the Federal Government
It’s not uncommon to hear the claim made that the “stimulus” would have had a greater economic impact had the money been focused on infrastructure. But ...
Downsizing the Federal Government
That’s the title of a column in the December issue of Governing authored by Donald Kettl, the dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. According to Kettl, the federal government’s new “stinginess” is being directed toward state and local governments. Stinginess? Didn’t...
Downsizing the Federal Government
That’s the title of a USA Today analysis, which reveals an outrageous increase in salaries at the top levels of the federal workforce. ...
Downsizing the Federal Government
Another day brings another example of federal health care fraud. Today’s story comes from “the nation’s healthcare fraud capital” of Miami-Dade County. The go...
Downsizing the Federal Government
Huge deficit spending, a supposed stimulus bill, and financial bailouts by the Bush administration failed to stave off a deep recession. President Obama continued his predecessor’s policies with an even bigger stimulus, which helped push the deficit over the unimaginable trillion dollar mark. ...
Downsizing the Federal Government
Since 1908, the U.S. Forest Service has paid 25 percent of its gross receipts to the states for spending on roads and schools in the counties where national forests are located...
Downsizing the Federal Government
In the early 1990s, two Federal Reserve studies on mortgage lending were held up by proponents of interventionist government as proof that banks were discriminating against minorities...
Allen Arledge
Allen Arledge
Poor people (WITH poor or no credit) should not have mortgages. I hate to be forced to word it that way, but the fact is that people with very, very low resources should not be allowed to toy with devices that could destroy any forseeable future that they might have financially. When I was 20 I had an 18-year-old friend who lived in a 100K house ... See Moreand worked at Rice Palace as a server (meaning she probably made more money than I did as a guard, but still very little). The house was utterly empty except for extremely expensive stereo equipment and bills and collection notices.
THAT was when I realized we had a problem in America, and over the next few years, when noone payed any attention to what I had to say about it-was when I realized that maybe I have a knack for perceiving systemic lunacy.
December 13, 2009 at 10:00am
Downsizing the Federal Government
In 2007, the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program was created in the Department of Energy to support the development of advanced (i.e., “green”) technology vehicles. Last year Congress appropriated $7.5 billion to support a maximum of $25 billion in loans. So...
Downsizing the Federal Government
In 2003, the U.S. Postal Service initiated the Intelligent Mail program, which would integrate thirty different barcode systems used by commercial mailers into a single system. Ideally, the new barcode system would improve efficiency, reduce costs, and improve timeliness of delivery...