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...Homeless Empowerment Project, publishers of the Spare Change newspaper, yesterday announced plans to sell a tape of music by homeless children...
...TAPE In a misguided effort to head off waste, fraud and abuse, Congress and the Executive Branch enmesh operating personnel in endless spider webs of rules. Line-item budgets allow no flexibility in shifting money from one use to another. Two areas of one military base boasted well-maintained sidewalks, while in another area, personnel walked in mud because the base commander's budget contained money only for repairing sidewalks, not for building any. Government employees who need to travel must get approvals from many superiors and superiors' superiors, and then often have to deal with a single airline under...
Gore will also present ideas for cutting red tape. There is, for instance, talk of issuing a government credit card that managers and employees could use to purchase laptop computers, airline trips or whatever locally, without going through the General Services Administration. Finally, the National Performance Review will urge personnel reforms. Among them: allow more raises and promotions within a job classification; and, yes, simplify and accelerate the firing process...
...takes aim -- yes, again -- at bureaucratic bloat and red tape...
...launch what may be one of the projects by which this Administration is defined, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid will once again ride off together. Back on the bus, Clinton and Gore plan tentatively to go this week to Ohio, California and Texas, carrying tales of red tape and floor wax to people yearning to breathe free of bureaucracy...