Since President Clinton, no president has balanced the budget, never mind leaving office at a surplus as Clinton did. Why we forgot that and elected Obama is beyond me. Fiscal responsibility should be the president's main focus. That may mean leaving two wars we will never win, which could pay for national healthcare.
Maybe Hillary would have addressed this need, maybe not! One will never know! But I supported government for a little over 10 years and let me offer some recommendations how to control the budget!
Start with the pennies and the dollars take care of themselves!
This is so true and never followed. I worked on a number of projects both for the FAA and the Military as well as State government and if this basic principle was adhered to we would have a balanced budget everywhere.
Example FAA spends millions redoing a project because of lack of planning, poor management and inadequate oversight both from the government and contractor side.
Military spent 20M implementing an ICMM process when they did not build anything just to impress Washington and receive additional funds for something they did not do to begin with.
These are just two examples of millions the government could save by having independent oversight and periodically reports on what is working and not. These are the pennies never mind the dollars.
Recently I was the PM for a major military project that again was estimated at 30-45M and the contractor was managing anticipating and implementing a system they knew would go to 100M or more, No matter what you say (And I wrote to military commander at the fort) the project continues. The reason is like so many other government projects, everyone is in bed together.
If anyone is reading this that is in upper management at the government, start with the pennies and you will see the dollars grow!
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