Shouldn't Pres.
Obama Appoint A Budget Czar For Negotiations?
America has a
surfeit of Nobel Prize winning economists such as Joseph Stiglitz. Isn't it
possible that some of them might have ideas about budget reform that the
President does not? One wonders if the President refuses to negotiate on the
budget spending cap and Obamacare because he doesn't know what is in the
Federal budget being a lawyer rather than an economist?
It should be
possible for a good economist made budget czar to easily cut hundreds of
billions of dollars from the federal budget of wasteful programs that
Republicans like and want funded. Are new carpets installed in U.S. Senate
offices-cut that out? Do subsidies exist or federal spending occur that
benefits Republicans-then be responsible and stop it.
Sometimes it is
necessary to steer the ship of state toward the safe harbor of reduction of
national debt. The better way to accomplish that is to improve the efficiency
of existing programmatic spending structures through reform rather than the
inaccuracy of generic cuts. It should for example be possible to reform
Obamacare even before it's fully implemented by cutting out the part about
increasing Medicaid spending that only works in half the states and replacing
that with an expanded V.A. hospital system that will include treatment for the
poor. New construction of hospital and clinics in remote sites could provide
jobs for documented construction workers. All of the nation's poor would be
included and the nation would have a better public treatment structure in the
event of national emergency such as could occur in event of nuclear, chemical
or biological war.
Plainly the
serious threats to national security collectively and to individuals are in the
sort of harm to health the poor may experience any or even every day while the
prosperous are aloof. They may experience the threats for real only in times of
mass disaster when they run to the Federal government like Republican Gov.
Chris Christie did pleading for billions and billions of money when hurricane
Sandy splashed New Jersey with storm waves or change their minds about public
medical provisioning such as Republican Governor Schwarzenneger had after
suffering a compound fracture of a leg skiing at Sun Valley Idaho.
Negotiating with
Republicans on the federal budget ought to be fun. More fun even that playing
bullet chess. What's up with the President anyway; too much time on the golf
course?
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