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terça-feira, fevereiro 08, 2005
A budget in Bush's own image
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What is striking about the five Bush budgets since he took office in 2001 is that they have fundamentally changed the way the US raises and spends money, in line with his own political philosophy.
The Bush budgets share four themes. First is the reliance on the military to solve problems, whether providing tsunami relief or fighting global terror.
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A second theme - centrepiece of the president's "management agenda" - is the increasing use of the private sector to perform government services.
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Third, the president's budgets continue to favour society's haves among older people and the middle classes rather than its have-nots.
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Fourth, the Bush budgets reflect the philosophy articulated by Dick Cheney, the vice-president, that deficits "don't matter".
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As the budget season rolls forward, the real challenge is not the detail of each line item. It is whether Americans are content with the shift towards a more indebted and militaristic society that favours the middle class and in which the levers of government are increasingly in private-sector hands.
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By Linda Bilmes
The writer, assistant secretary of commerce under Bill Clinton, teaches budgeting and public finance at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
FT.com
What is striking about the five Bush budgets since he took office in 2001 is that they have fundamentally changed the way the US raises and spends money, in line with his own political philosophy.
The Bush budgets share four themes. First is the reliance on the military to solve problems, whether providing tsunami relief or fighting global terror.
...
A second theme - centrepiece of the president's "management agenda" - is the increasing use of the private sector to perform government services.
...
Third, the president's budgets continue to favour society's haves among older people and the middle classes rather than its have-nots.
...
Fourth, the Bush budgets reflect the philosophy articulated by Dick Cheney, the vice-president, that deficits "don't matter".
...
As the budget season rolls forward, the real challenge is not the detail of each line item. It is whether Americans are content with the shift towards a more indebted and militaristic society that favours the middle class and in which the levers of government are increasingly in private-sector hands.
...
By Linda Bilmes
The writer, assistant secretary of commerce under Bill Clinton, teaches budgeting and public finance at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
FT.com
posted by CMT, 11:49 da manhã
