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QUOTE OF NOTE: "Enter any school in America today, and it becomes painfully obvious that the educational system is in the need of a top-to-bottom overhaul. I will work to eliminate the Department of Education, which will save $17 billion from the federal budget...
...moderate stances, Eastaugh has painted G.O.P. incumbent Wayne Gilchrest as a Newt Gingrich crony and environmental Johnny-come-lately. Eastaugh emphasizes his own participation in the original Earth Day (while at Harvard) and his support for small-business tax incentives. He agrees with his opponent, however, in advocating overhaul of cumbersome government programs...
WELFARE. House: Would you have voted for the bill overhauling the federal welfare system, ending welfare as an entitlement, turning it into a block-grant program to be run by states and placing certain work and behavioral requirements on welfare recipients? [HR4. Passed, H vote: 234-199] Senate: Would you have voted for a Democratic alternative to the Republican (House) welfare-overhaul bill? It would continue welfare as a federal entitlement rather than converting it into a block-grant program to be run by the states, and provide more money than was in the g.o.p. bill for job assistance...
Without a complete overhaul of the country's political, financial and education systems, dreams of prosperity could well become nightmares for Japan's future generations. The country's remarkable post-war growth was built around an industrial policy in which politicians, bureaucrats and corporate chieftains orchestrated every regulation, first in order to catch up with the West and later to keep themselves entrenched. But politics and the bureaucracy never got to evolve. When success brought on the frenzied speculating of the late 1980s, the ruling establishment covered one another's bets. In 1992 the bubble burst, the Nikkei stock index...
...need to create a government that can bring about change," says Minister of Health Naoto Kan, the highly popular co-leader of the new Democratic Party, which is promoting its version of a "kinder, gentler" Japan. Depending on the political party, plans for administrative reform run from a polite overhaul of the Ministry of Finance--which bears most of the blame for the financial crisis--to moving the bulk of government out of Tokyo...