Trajan
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- Jun 17, 2010
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*shrugs* they want us to pay for the 24% increase in discretionary spending they ladled out over 2 years and have made part of the baseline funding going forward, its really that simple.
See, you create the prgm. or bloat it, get folks on the hook, then scream that the nastys are ripping the heart out of it.
for anyone requiring a brief on what baseline spending is, its rather simple; execute a bill or refund a prgm., they build in legislatively a rise in its funding automatically year to year to year, every year, say 4%, so when asked to cut, the usual answer is well ok, but really? They don't cut the meat, they just cut down the baseline % and call it savings....The reps last march had their first hack at it and cut a lot of the baselines to zero, but now that the meat of the prgm.s itself is on the table? Forget it…….
See, you create the prgm. or bloat it, get folks on the hook, then scream that the nastys are ripping the heart out of it.
for anyone requiring a brief on what baseline spending is, its rather simple; execute a bill or refund a prgm., they build in legislatively a rise in its funding automatically year to year to year, every year, say 4%, so when asked to cut, the usual answer is well ok, but really? They don't cut the meat, they just cut down the baseline % and call it savings....The reps last march had their first hack at it and cut a lot of the baselines to zero, but now that the meat of the prgm.s itself is on the table? Forget it…….