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Playing With Numbers. Budgeting in the Age of Polarization

Playing With Numbers. Budgeting in the Age of PolarizationPlaying With Numbers. Budgeting in the Age of Polarization

This week the President rolled out his budget.  There was a lot of hand wringing and posturing about the size of the budget — now measured in trillions —  and the size of the deficit it projects.
Yawn.
Can we please talk about something else?  Torturing the underwear bomber (not to be confused with the shoe bomber)?  Maybe the snow storm of the century (and possibly the 20th Century, as well) which hit DC with a vengeance?  That’s something to talk about.  Prince George’s County, MD has already blown through it’s budget for snow removal from the last storm.  Now…

Don’t Hate Me ‘Cause I’m NAR

Don’t Hate Me ‘Cause I’m NARDon’t Hate Me ‘Cause I’m NAR

A View from Inside
In the past month or so that I’ve been writing at Agent Genius, my employer, NAR, its volunteers and staff have  taken a lot of heat. I’ve watched mostly from a distance but this week I thought I’d offer my perspective from the inside. I offer my personal perspective both as NAR staff and as a professional who spends her days as an advocate—someone who endeavors to get a large, tradition-laden, often intractable organization to do what I want them to do. I’m talking of course about Congress, but the lessons can be applied universally.
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