Budget Analyst's Archives: 1999 Opinions
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What
have the tricks led to? A RIF? Definitely a fun summer and fall! What will result from the tricks used to make the numbers add for FY 2000. |
December 6, 1999 |
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Performance Management and Measures - Why Only a Few
Succeed. The performance plans are in house exercises that
lose track of what they are to accomplish. |
November 29, 1999 |
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Next year will be different - maybe. Thoughts on what may happen during 2000 on the FY 2001 budget. |
November 22, 1999 |
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More on Waste and its Causes - Only in America. Additional examples and considerations of what is the cause of "waste"
in the Federal government today. |
November 15, 1999 |
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It's
about the elections - they will tell who won. Time to focus on operating planning
and FY 2001 budget. |
November 7, 1999 |
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Wars
of attrition, including budget wars, are tiring and boring |
October 31 - November
4, 1999 |
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Is
waste 10% of your budget? "Waste"
depends on who defines it. |
October 26, 1999 |
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Shutdown?
The issues don't go away |
October 24, 1999 |
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New
CR, but issues with FY 2000 appropriations remain. Vetoes powerful incentive, as is
legacy |
October 20, 1999 |
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Major
issues with FY 2000 appropriations remain. Shutdown for some in late October? |
October 17, 1999 |
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One down, three close (maybe), and the rest? Will Congress cave? Who wins
with shutdown? |
September 28, 1999 |
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Slow but fast business at appropriations. |
September 22, 1999 |
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Major tax cut off the table - good or bad for appropriations? |
September 10, 1999 |
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Ponderous Congress and "accidental" shutdowns. |
September 7, 1999 |
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Where are appropriations? |
September 1, 1999 |
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Vacation
time |
August 24, 1999 |
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More
games |
August 14, 1999 |
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Shutdowns
here we come again |
August 1, 1999 |
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And
the tricks keep on coming... |
July 27, 1999 |
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Horror
show time |
July 22, 1999 |
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Is
the surplus for real? |
July 13, 1999 |
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Summit
time |
July 8, 1999 |
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The
fix is about in. Prelude to tricks - inflate the surplus
to make the pain go away. |
June 30, 1999 |
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Progress on this front? It
looks like they are stumbling towards finding a way out. |
Late June 1999 |
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More furloughs? Shutdowns
Again? It looks like they want to replay 1995-96!
Plus: My Perspectives on the
October 1998 Events: What is this all about? A gigantic game of
"chicken" is what the budget process posturing is all about. |
June 1999 |
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