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...public and marginalized him in his remaining months in his post. Army General John Abizaid, head of Central Command, has been forceful in his views with appointed officials on strategy and micromanagement of the fight in Iraq--often with success. Marine Commandant General Mike Hagee steadfastly challenged plans to underfund, understaff and underequip his service as the Corps has struggled to sustain its fighting capability...
Congress's role has been pivotal. Lawmakers wrote bankruptcy regulations to allow corporations to scrap the health insurance they promised employees who retired early--sometimes voluntarily, quite often not. They wrote pension rules that encouraged corporations to underfund their retirement plans or switch to plans less favorable to employees. They denied workers the right to sue to enforce retirement promises. They have refused to overhaul America's health-care system, which has created the world's most expensive medical care without any comparable benefit. One by one, lawmakers have undermined or destroyed policies that once afforded at least the possibility...
...Kosovo war, the committee maintains that lack of funding and leadership from the White House has left the nation's human and electronic intelligence-gathering systems in a poor state of preparedness and put the nation at risk. Stripped of its partisan tilt - it takes two, after all, to underfund a government agency - the report may be pointing to a deeper reality: Optimal security is attained not by the efficient investigation and prosecution of spies, but by prevention and counterintelligence...
...simply adding more kids," says the National Head Start Association's Don Bolce, "we could end up like the S&Ls. By functioning on the cheap, we will eventually so severely underfund Head Start's ability to deliver quality care that we will be forced to spend even more to fix the problems shortsightedly created...
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