Download or read book Downsizing the Federal Government written by Chris R. Edwards and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most federal programs are unnecessary, actively damaging, or properly the responsibility of the states or the private sector. This book examines a huge range of programs that should be cut to balance the budget and reduce taxes.
Download or read book Downsizing Federal Government Spending written by Chris Edwards and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Downsizing Federal Government Spending is a clear and essential guide for policymakers and voters alike on reducing federal spending and on preventing a massive budget crisis that could crush the generations ahead. It provides a detailed series of comprehensive and concise policy strategies to reduce rampant government spending and the national deficit. Sectioned by topic – including Agriculture, Defense, Education (both K-12 and Higher Education), Healthcare, Foreign Policy, and Fiscal Policy - each chapter has been meticulously researched by Cato scholars. Consistent and informed critiques of federally-funded programs come with solid alternatives – identifying areas for needed spending cuts, state-based funding, privatization, termination, and more. Edited by Chris Edwards, this collection moves forward with the crucial task of evaluating federal spending, and reveals how spending changes and cuts would not only eliminate the deficit, but also strengthen the economy, enlarge personal freedom, and leave a positive fiscal legacy for the next generation.
Download or read book Downsizing the Federal Government written by Chris Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government is headed toward a financial crisis as a result of chronic overspending, large deficits, and huge future cost increases in Social Security and Medicare. Social Security and Medicare would be big fiscal challenges even if the rest of the government were lean and efficient, but the budget is littered with wasteful and unnecessary programs. In recent years, mismanagement scandals have occurred in many federal agencies, including the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Department of Energy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Even the National Zoo in Washington has recently been shaken by scandal. The $2.3 trillion federal government has simply become too big for Congress to oversee. The good news is that Americans do not need such a big government. Most federal programs are unconstitutional, unnecessary, actively damaging, or properly the responsibility of state governments or the private sector. This study analyzes programs that could be cut to create annual budget savings of $300 billion. If these cuts were phased in over five years, the budget would be balanced by fiscal year 2009 with all of President Bush's tax cuts in place. Some reform ideas should be applied throughout the government. Business subsidies should be terminated, and commercial activities should be privatized. Also, federal grants to the states should be scaled back. Currently, a complex array of 716 grant programs disgorges more than $400 billion annually to state and local governments, which become strangled in federal regulations. That form of “trickle-down” economics is very inefficient. Such reforms were on the agenda in the Reagan administration and in the Republican Congress of the mid-1990s. But the need for spending cuts is even more acute today because of the large fiscal imbalances that loom from projected growth in entitlement costs. Spending cuts would not just balance the budget; they would also increase individual freedom and expand the economy. All federal spending displaces private spending, but many federal programs actively damage the economy, cause social ills, despoil the environment, or restrict liberty as well. Given the government's record of mismanaged and damaging programs reviewed in this report, policymakers should be far more skeptical about the government's ability to solve problems with higher spending.
Download or read book Downsizing the Federal Government written by Vernon D Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of downsizing has shifted from the private to the public sector. The cutbacks began in the Department of Defense. Now the goal is a federal civilian workforce reduction of 12 percent by the year 2000. This pioneering study looks at the management of workforce reductions in the public sector both in theory and in practice. Three case studies -- of the Defense Logistics Agency, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Food and Drug Administration -- illustrate the organizational, managerial, and human dimensions of attempting to improve performance with reduced resources. The author draws on extensive interviews with senior executives and middle managers in the three agencies; at the General Accounting Office, the Office of Personnel Management, and the National Performance Review; the Senior Executives Association and the Federal Managers Association; and scholars and researchers. In a larger sense, this work pushes the boundaries of knowledge concerning organizational change and makes a significant contribution to organization theory. It offers important new insights not only for public sector managers but for organization theorists and management specialists whose work on downsizing has been presumed but not shown to be applicable to the public sector.
Download or read book Downsizing the Federal Government written by Vernon Dale Jones and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs Department of Transportation and related agencies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs Agriculture Rural Development Food and Drug Administration and related agencies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs Departments of Labor Health and Human Services Education and related agencies legislative branch written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pursuit of Beter Government Federal Government Downsizing in the United States written by Vernon Dale *Jones and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pursuit of Better Government written by Vernon Dale Jones and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs Vol 1 written by Committee on Appropriations and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Downsizing Government and Setting Priorities of Federal Programs, Vol. 1: Hearings Before Subcommittees of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session Note: Under Committee Rules, Mr. Livingston, as Chairman of the Full Committee, and Mr. Obey, as Ranking Minority Member of the Full Committee, are authorized to sit as Members of all Subcommittees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Federal Downsizing written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Downsizing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Downsizing D c written by Professor of the Practice of History Robert Savage and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we, everyday Americans who have lost control of our government, get it back for ourselves and our children? America's government may or may not be too large, but it is clearly too far removed from its ordinary citizens. Rather than responding to us, it answers instead to special-interests' high-paid lobbyists, entrenched bureaucrats, and its own politically-elite class of perpetual officeholders. In this his third book, Bob Savage details specific steps our nation should take to realign our massively-bloated federal government and thereby move control of our lives and personal fates much closer to each of us as citizens. His ideas draw on experiences and education including four years in Washington, DC, as an officer/engineer for our then-newly emerging nuclear navy, almost thirty years of management in marketing and economics with the Bell System, and over two decades as owner (with his wife) and operator of a successful small retail business. During those years, Bob worked for or closely with the US Atomic Energy Commission, major defense contractors in shipbuilding and electronics, the University of Florida, NASA and the US Air Force, and the Public Service Commissions of FL, GA, NC, and SC. He was BellSouth's Account Manager to the Kennedy Space Center during the Apollo/Saturn moon landings, a nationwide pricing manager for AT&T, and later a manager in that company's historic breakup and the principal pricing expert testifying in over thirty major telephone rate cases. "
