Posted on 11/26/2011 7:09:07 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Sometimes large private sector businesses experience significant changes in their marketplace that result in revenue declining dramatically, with no short or even medium-term solution for driving up revenue. Things like product obsolescence.
Typically the CEO is replaced by someone experienced at dramatic downsizing turnarounds. They will reduce and eliminate costs as effectively as possible while planning for revenue stream enhancement and simultaneously getting as much profit as possible out of the portions of the revenue stream that are deemed “legacy”. This can involve getting out of some lines of business and into others. Large staff turnover can happen along with dramatic downsizing, as well as changes and downsizing in company facilities and equipment. A whole heap of small-business style common sense is needed in leadership, asking “do we need to do this process at all”, etc., not being afraid to ask tough questions and get answers one way or the other, while also having the sophistication to deal with large company issues.
That type of leadership is what’s needed in the next President of the U.S.
For the U.S. government, this all has to happen while it continues to perform it’s essential functions.
Trouble is, politicians have zero experience in this environment, and even less desire to not continue to grow the government, let alone shrink it.
That’s why I look at only Bachmann and Cain as the pair that will or even can be effective as leaders for the next decade.
Michele is on both the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and she is very knowledgeable in both areas.
REALLY?
Has Hairy Reid sobered up?
Nah. He got Boehner drunk.
I’m radical enough to want to eliminate every stinking bit of it and the district it resides in.
I no longer support any part of a federal government in any way, shape or form.
Rather than cutting, how about we export?
For a change.
Walk the plank Boner.
Fifteen trillions in debt and the fact that no one seems alarmed anymore does not bode well, to say the least.
Our leaders and power brokers do not have the will to leave our financial decisions to the Constitution. Therefore the ending will not be pretty.
The budget of the Department of Education is about $80 Billion, and there are about 50 million K-12 kids in the U.S. That is about $1600 per student. The tuition for my children’s Catholic School is $5025 per year. So the Government spends about 31% of that for each child in the U.S.
Huh? By my count they control half.
Executive (President) - Dem majority (2 RINOs in cabinent, rest of Depts. run by RATs)
Judicial (Supremes) - 5-to-4 GOP majority
Legislative (House) 242-192 GOP majority
Legislative (Senate) 51-47 Dem majority
Note I corrected used red to represent the communist left-wing party, regardless of how much the mainstream media wants to reverse the colors after 2000.
Anyway...where'd you get the idea that the Dems control 3/4ths of government? Did the RATs take over the Supreme Court and make Kagan the Chief Justice when I wasn't looking?
Bzzzzt. If you block grant them, they're still federal programs, just being executed at the state level. And it's not simply a distinction without a difference vs. what you propose -- the money, which was extracted from the citizens of the same state, is only returned with strings attached which can be proven to be almost always things the citizens who contributed the money DON'T want.
Great thread. Thanks to all posters. 7-90, eh? I can't seem to find the other 89 POS senators, besides Lindsey Graham. Cut politicians and their programs. 2012.
HOORAY Rand Paul (and the other 6)!
This election is critical, but your argument is a falsehood that the current GOP congress has used to excuse their lack of follow-through on anything they campaigned on in 2010 (cutting spending and stopping Obamacare).
The Supremes have nothing directly to do with spending and neither does the President without the approval of Congress. Congress controls the purse strings and the government doesn’t spend anything that Congress doesn’t approve.
Having a strong majority in the House could have and should have been enough to stop the madness.
But if we can just get a GOP majority (again), we'll finally balance the budget. /s
” Lindsey Graham is a traitorous little weasel who needs to be expelled in 2014. “
I don’t know how he got back in last time. Musta been the Chamber of Commerce WHORES who backed him, because he was for amnesty.
That's an easy thing to say but can you remember the names of all 9?
Yes, look at Lindsey Graham and his friend McPain; that’s just what SC and AZ keep on doing.
No, none of the Dept. of Education budget is actually spent on regular classroom school expenses. That is all local and state funding; in some states, more local than state funding. The federal money is occasional gravy for “special programs” and other kinds of interference so sought by the American public.
Ok tell me what I am missing. How do they get any changes threw the Senate, and Obama Signature. I agree they should have bitten the bullet and not increased the debt ceiling. But what I’m I missing.
Congress has to pass a bill approving any and all spending. If the House doesn’t approve a bill it can’t be passed on for the President to sign it whether or not the Senate votes for it. (And all spending bills are supposed to originate in the House anyway.)
All the House has to do is only pass bills spending less money.
Thank You.
Having to much trouble with FR. Will try tomorrow.
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