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Cut, No,
Invest!
Remember
"Tastes
Great, Less
Filling?" Or
perhaps,
"It's a
floor wax!
No, it's a
dessert
topping!"
(See Hulu
link,
below).
Welcome to
Budget 2011,
where we cut
programs,
but also
invest.
President
Obama identified
several key
areas in
which he
hopes to
have the
Federal
Government
make
significant
investments:
Keep an eye
on funding
for
biomedical
research;
information
technology;
clean energy
technology;
wireless
technology;
light rail;
and
education.
Link to Hulu
http://www.hulu.com/watch/61320/saturday-night-live-shimmer-floor-wax |
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The Big
Freeze
In his State of
the
Union
address,
President
Obama
called
for a
five-year
freeze
on all
domestic
spending,
saying
that
"This
would
bring
discretionary
spending
to the
lowest
share of
our
economy
since
Dwight
Eisenhower
was
President."
A freeze
would
eliminate
the
approximately
3% raise
in
annual
spending
that we
would
otherwise
anticipate.
As
underlying
expenses
increase,
then,
programs
will
have to
be cut.
But
which
programs?
To be
sure,
we'll
have to
watch
the
budget
process
as it is
hashed
out in
Legislatures
from the
local
level to
the
halls of
Congress,
but
there is
some
consensus
forming
around
key
areas,
and some
related
opportunities:
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Education
K-12 and
higher
education
remain
among
the most
significant
expenditures
at all
levels
of
Government.
Look for
Government
to
provide
carrots
around
education
reform
as a way
of
changing
processes
and
creating
greater
efficiencies.
In
discussing
the Race
to the
Top
educational
funding
in his
State of
the
Union
address,
for
instance,
President
Obama
said,
"For
less
than 1%
of what
we spend
on
education
each
year, it
has lead
over 40
states
to raise
their
standards
for
teaching
and
learning."
Look for
this
type of
"challenge"
funding
to be
the
model
for
driving
efficiency,
results
and
reform
in
large-scale
Federal
education
funding
in the
coming
year. In
higher
education,
look for
initiatives
that
hasten
students
through
the
system
by
linking
funding
to the
numbers
of
students
who
graduate,
facilitating the
transfer
of
credits
from
community
colleges,
and
encouraging
dual
enrollment
of high
school
students
in
college
courses. |
Corrections
The New York Times
reports
that
the
US
has
less
than
5%
of
the
world's
population,
but
almost
a
quarter
of
its
prisoners.
Turns
out,
that's
an
expensive
proposition.
But
to
ultimately
cut
costs,
we
have
to
reduce
the
prison
population.
To
do
so,
Government
will
have
to
redirect
resources
to
the
community:
Look
for
increased
funding
for
social
supports
for
at-risk
youth,
increased
support
to
at-risk
families,
re-entry
assistance
for
offenders,
and
greater
attention
to
violence
prevention
among
vulnerable
populations.
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Restructuring
The
National
Governors
Association
reports
that all
States
are
looking
to
structurally
transform
Government
so that
it costs
less to
operate.
That
means a
review
of
agency
mission,
purpose,
costs
and
effectiveness,
and the
possible
merger
and
consolidation
of
agencies.
Watch
this
one: If
programs
are
transferred
from one
agency
to
another,
sometimes
the
funding
line
doesn't
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Technology
Inherent
in talk
of
Government
restructuring
is the
introduction
of new
technologies,
with the
potential
to
produce
results
quicker
and at
less
expense
- and to
eliminate
the need
for
Government
jobs.
Look for
opportunities
to
introduce
or
leverage
technology:
electronic
medical
records,
distance
learning,
social
networking
tools as
modern
comment
boxes
and, of
course,
greater
transparency. |
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