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Federal Workers and Help for Haiti: Past, Present & Future
What's important now, is that, even as the United States renders extraordinary emergency assistance, we begin working on our Haitian-exit strategy. Haiti deserves more than a future where it survives, forever tied to U.S. apron strings, living from dole to dole.
Tags: columns , Haiti , State , DHS , HHS , Defense , FAA
Obama Opts Out of Procurement Reform
The President delegated reform appropriately, except that the person to whom he delegated the task doesn't yet exist.
Tags: OMB , Barack Obama , procurement reform , acquisition , SARA Panel , Federal Acquisition Institute , Defense Acquisition University , oversight , OFPP , Daniel Gordon , Peter Drucker , GSA , DoD , DHS
TSA and government execution risks
TSA's mishandling and misuse of backscatter technologies will have damaging effects, both on individuals and on our country's economic viability.
Tags: TSA , DHS , Christmas bomber , Passport Information Electronic System , backscatter , technology , NII , State , Al Qaeda
FY2011: Federal Workers are the New Fat Cats
Federal workers, receiving even modest pay increases at a time when many Americans are just trying to hold on to their jobs, now fall into the category of high income earners.
Tags: fat cats , Obama administration , Green Book , Earned Income Credit , estate tax , Steny Hoyer , FY 2011 budget , budget
President Obama and the 2010 State of the Union
If federal workers listen closely to the State of the Union address, they can get a good sense of what agency priorities are going to be for the upcoming year.
Tags: Barack Obama , 111th Congress , State of the Union , ARRA , healthcare reform , fiscal commission , Waxman-Markey , Iraq , Afghanistan , Haiti , budget
Continuing Resolution and the Myth of Job Creation
New jobs can't be created in the federal government as things stand.
Tags: stimulus , Bureau of Labor Statistics , continuing resolution , CR , job creation , Jobless numbers , Unemployment statistics
The Promise of "Unprecedented Transparency": The 90 Day Litmus Test
Now would be a good time for a review of the stimulus.
Tags: Barack Obama , stimulus , HALP , Clunkers , czars , passback , OMB , transparency
TARP and campaign donations
One hand washing the other makes them all look dirty.
Tags: TARP , stimulus , campaign donations , campaign finance reform , Chrysler , JP Morgan Chase , Goldman Sachs
Zero Based Budgeting and Bloat
Nothing from nothing leaves nothing... Which is a great place to start.
Tags: mngt , stimulus , OMB , zero based budgeting
Summing Up
This is my last, weekly Op-Ed on Federal News Radio, and I want our listeners to know that I appreciate the wonderful support, emails, and comments you have made over the past year.
Tags: Federal News Radio , Leadership Matters , stimulus , federal budget , contracting , small business , deficit , job creation , Peter Orszag
