Word: budgeting
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...Great American Budget Battle, Washington's answer to professional wrestling, has officially begun, all roars and growls and theatrical blows to the head. This week Congress will send the President a $792 billion tax-cut bill; he has promised to stomp on it. Clinton has pushed a $300 billion spending program, including a new prescription-drug program for Medicare; congressional fists are already clenched. There is talk of grand ideological warfare, of reckless spendthrift Democrats and reckless plutocrat-loving Republicans fighting over how to divvy up the glorious $3 trillion surplus. In this season's budget politics, much...
...gouge spending too deeply. But, if a $3 trillion surplus is expected over the next 10 years, why would lawmakers be forced to gut programs like air-traffic control and food inspection and counterterrorism? Because two years ago, they promised they would. The problem is the famous 1997 Balanced Budget Act, which balanced the budget only because Congress and the President agreed to cut the total amount of discretionary spending in future years, without having to say exactly what would be cut. Congress, like Wimpy, will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today...
Historically RCAA has been a line item in the Radcliffe College budget. The association sponsors speakers, conferences and programs for graduates, as well as assisting with reunions. In the past it has taken a more activist stance than the Harvard Alumni Association, with RCAA leaders using their platform to lobby both Radcliffe and Harvard on behalf of undergraduate women...
...Whatever loyalty I feel with the College has nothing to do with those kinds of judgements," says Elliot R. Cutler '68, who was associate director of the Office of Management and Budget. "They are likely to be smart. If they went to Harvard there's a bit of an edge...
Beyond the anecdotal evidence of success stories, is there any evidence that the private groups would do better on the scale at which government agencies operate? Some volunteer organizations can thrive on a shoestring budget, but others are plagued with at least as much administrative overhead as the Department of Health and Human Services. Furthermore, government agencies, despite all their inefficiencies, have built-in oversight procedures and are always directly accountable to a higher authority, as well as, indirectly, the voting public. Would a private group be under--or be willing to submit to--such oversight...