"Peter E. Pflaum, Ph.D. Institute for Human Resources (904) 428-9609
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RE: Libertarian Economics - The New World Order
The new "fast lane" people are quite Libertarian.
Legalize drugs (or don't enforce the laws ), privatize
as much as possible, they desire and need a society of
low taxes and high returns - little regulation. (torte
reform) - the new economics requires new fast
developing institutions, spin offs, free competition,
and creative enterprise. Unlike the traditional
capitalist, these firms are information rich, rather
than capital or labor intensive. Innovation is the name
of the game - re-tool every five years, next generation
products are always in the pipeline. How about re-
inventing government - really re-inventing government.
Spin off to the states or regional grouping the
administration of welfare, education, health,
unemployment and social programs. Privatize not only
Air Traffic Control but Social Security Administration
( as much of Medicare is ) make Medicaid a HMO with
private contractors (Several states are trying to do
this) - Close down HUD, Energy, put Labor in with
Education as Human Resources, Agriculture and Interior
as Natural Resources (Some trees now are Agriculture
others are Interiors),
Seven Agency Plan:
Dept. Of State
Treasury (include commerce )
Defense
Law Enforcement - Atty General - DEA - INS - ATF -
Natural Resources (Agriculture, Interior, Energy)
Human Resources (Health and Social Services, Education,
Labor, Veterans Affairs, HUD)
Transportation & Science and Technology - NSF -
foundations - Smithsonian - Misc.
The New Deal agenda was a response to the excesses of
industrial capitalism. Social insurance, unemployment
benefits, workers compensation and welfare, labor
relations, even farm policy was a political balance of
majority interest, (there are more workers than owners)
to smooth the edges of corporate capitalism. The
Democratic Party was a sort of Labor Party, plus
minority interest, big cities, plus academic and media
liberals. The decline in unions, central cities, ethic
minorities (of the type organized by city political
machines) has led to the decline of their traditional
coalition.
If the new model organization is high tech -
information rich, fast, flexible, Z style organization
- MicroSoft Campus like - 3M - enterprise - adventures
then the social requirements are freedom of action,
without excessive regulation, taxes, or interference.
Regulation has been used by the big old firms to limit
change - telecommunications being a prime example. The
Air Traffic Control System demonstrates the problems of
big bureaucracies in keeping up with the rapid change
in technology.
the bottom line:
gopher://sunny.stat-usa.gov
:70/00/budget95 Fednet - commerce -
If you have $1300 in monthly income and have fixed
deductions of $1000 it gives you a net check of $300 -
and your cost of living - rent, food etc is $550
you are in trouble - (fixed payments, $220 interest,
$350 Social Security, $150 Medicare, $90 Medicaid,
$70 retirement, $100 social welfare, misc $60)
What everyone should know: You have to cut somewhere
or/and raise income.
THERE IS NO WAY TO BALANCE THE BUDGET (even by 2002)
without new taxes, and a major reduction in defense and
benefits.
The figures include receipts going up 300+ B - or 45 b
a year - 1350 b to 1650 expenditures do the same, from
1550 b to 1850 b. leaving a structural deficit of
200+ billion a year - a debt of 5,000 to 6,500 b or our
current GDP. The interest costs are killing us now - if
we had a lower debt we would have a lower deficit --
Interest = deficit = 200 b - little - figures give some
idea of what is required; Defense would go down by 10
b, and non-defense by the same amount -
Cabinet Agencies: Agriculture (excluding
International
Programs)..... 14,052 15,018 14,170 14,241
Commerce....... 3,216 3,632 4,187 4,502
Defense........ 262,617 249,979 252,850 244,200
Education...... 23,696 24,354 26,060 26,305
Energy......... 19,262 18,614 18,010 18,282
Health and
Human Services 31,608 34,318 35,414 36,193
Housing and Urban
Development... 25,524 25,105 26,064 33,537
Interior....... 7,078 7,512 7,231 7,346
Justice........ 9,315 9,376 12,144 14,343
Labor.......... 9,920 10,561 11,694 11,987
State.......... 4,928 5,289 4,860 4,713
Transportation. 13,514 11,186 13,543 13,194
Treasury....... 10,082 10,339 10,350 10,790
Veterans
Affairs....... 16,701 17,584 17,812 18,281
Major Agencies:
Appalachian Regional
Commission.... 190 249 187 187
Institutions.. ...... 144 144 111
Corporation for Public
Broadcasting.. 319 275 293 312
Corps of
Engineers..... 3,842 3,915 3,315 3,724
District of
Columbia...... 688 700 722 722
Environmental Protection
Agency........ 6,923 6,659 7,163 7,395
Executive Office of the
President..... 236 185 190 190
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission.... 222 230 246 246
Federal Emergency Management
Agency........ 2,573 800 704 704
General Services
Administration 275 522 1,600 172
International Programs (other than the State
Department.... 16,266 15,528 16,001 15,917
Legal Services
Corporation... 357 400 500 500
National Aeronautics and Space
Admin......... 14,309 14,466 14,300 14,400
National Archives and
Records Admin. 168 192 197 197
197 197 197
National Endowment for
the Arts...... 174 170 170 170
National Endowment for
the Humanities 177 177 177
National Labor Relations
Board......... 170 171 175 175
National Science
Foundation.... 2,734 3,018 3,200 3,234
National Service
Initiative.... 279 575 850 1,359
Office of Personnel
Management.... 123 123 117 114
Postal Service. 122 91 92 92
Railroad Retirement
Board......... 395 378 362 348
Securities and Exchange
Commission.... 127 58 306 319
Small Business
Administration 925 740 806 798
Smithsonian
Institution... 405 403 487 458
Tennessee Valley
Authority..... 135 140 140 140
Allowances..... ....... ....... -1,155 818
All Other
Agencies...... 1,297 921 1,134 1,164
Judicial Branch. 2,367 2,556 2,893 2,893
Legislative
Branch......... 2,313 2,307 2,545 2,699
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Total........... 509,624 498,816 512,250 517,682
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