Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...illusions about the complexity of his new job. HEW has 84,000 employees and a $30 billion annual budget, yet its six sprawling agencies* operate almost as independent entities, protected by their own cheering sections in Congress. Educators and some Congressmen have called for splitting off HEW's education office into a separate Cabinet-level Department of Education. Adding to the pressure, more burdens-and billions-are being piled on HEW as a result of Great Society programs, not the least of which is the $6.5 billion medicare scheme. Says Gardner: "I don't think even informed Americans...
...year 314 constitutional amendments have been introduced in the House. Ninety-eight deal with apportionment, 65 would give equal rights to women, 41 concern religion. Some of the others would establish a uniform voting age of 18, reform or abolish the electoral college, repeal the income tax, forbid federal-budget deficits except in time of national emergency, and double the two-year term of House members. Most of these also have been introduced in the Senate...
...SPENDING: The rise in defense outlays-a moderate $1 billion to $2 billion now-will not significantly affect the deficit in the federal budget. The deficit for fiscal 1965 was $3.5 billion, is expected to be $4.2 billion in fiscal 1966. Additional step-ups in Viet Nam spending later on may indeed swell the deficit. Even so, the Government does not expect to cut back its spending for construction and welfare programs, though the pace of some of them may be slowed...
Last week the 21-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development dismissed Britain's export performance as "consistently unsatisfactory." Seeking to calm the foreign fear, Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan unfurled what amounts to Labor's third budget in nine months: a series of tough deflationary measures that stop just short of import quotas, which would be Britain's last line of defense against devaluation...
...Department") to haul itself back into the Establishmentarian swim on Leiser's shoulders. With a typically British mixture of ineptness and guile, the seven men who still operate the Department in the drab house on Blackfriars' Road, jostle for position, portentously con "the Minister" for a bigger budget, extra limousines, higher status. And on Cambridge Circus, another and superior division of British intelligence cynically sees the whole exercise as a chance to get rid of an inferior nuisance. "The Circus" provides only obsolete equipment and minimum cooperation. The Department men compound this by blunder after blunder. Leiser himself...