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Blue-ribbon presidential commissions fall into two very different personality groups. Type A commissions are made up of reasonable people who disagree about some complicated problem and then struggle to reach consensus. These folks spend months in tortuous public hearings, draft carefully hedged reports, and often wind up utterly deadlocked. Type B panels avoid that outcome by being rigged from the start--stacked with people who already agree on What Is to Be Done yet still go through the motions of assessing the problem. Their final reports are clear and sweeping but usually dead on arrival, because all the opponents...
...preliminary report warning that the system is badly "broken" and headed for a train wreck in the future unless part of it is privatized. The panel's members, whom W hand-picked because they all like the idea of privatization in the first place, will be reviewing the draft report this week. Anything this commission does becomes politically explosive because politicians not only can't agree on how to fix Social Security, they're still arguing over what ails it in the first place...
...commission's co-chairmen, former New York Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and AOL-Time Warner executive Richard Parsons, painted a dire picture in their draft report. Unless repaired, Social Security will need tax increases or "massive" deficit spending by Congress to keep it afloat, their report warns. By 2020, Social Security's shortfall will equal the combined budgets of Head Start, the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, the Environmental Protection Agency, plus the Education and Commerce departments. Baby boomers will be shortchanged. Women, minorities and the poor will suffer...
...Even as the National Academy of Sciences - via a draft of a report commissioned by George W. Bush for August and leaked to the Times Tuesday - let it be known that fuel economy for automobiles and SUVs could be increased 8 to 11 miles per gallon using new technology without hindering safety, the head Republican and Democrat, respectively, on the House Energy and Commerce Committee got together Tuesday and compromised on a plan calling for a SUV/minivan increase...
...Aspen to alpine meadows populated only by elk. This year 31 million people are expected to visit, up 10% from just four years ago, fed by Colorado's booming popularity. Every 15 years the U.S. Forest Service must create a new land-use plan for the region, and the draft released in 1999--six years in the works--has precipitated a contentious debate, of which Red Creek is just one breathtaking battleground...