Michael Franc
Michael Franc
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You look at the relationship between 50 state sovereigns and the federal government, and the states always come out on the short end of the stick. They've consistently traded autonomy for cash, and they've consistently wound up with neither.
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He sees this as an opportunity to revamp the entire relationship of the federal government to the region,
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Crises cause government to grow. The test today will be how much of the federal response occurs within the existing boxes or through innovative ways.
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Boomers always struck me as very self-centered and self-important, because there are so many of us. We're always in the middle of the next fun moment at some everlasting party, and we're not able to defer the gratification to tackle the long-term problems.
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This second round of tax cuts was probably the high point, domestically, of Bush's administration. No sooner were they put in place, then the GDP (gross domestic product) growth hit 4 percent and it's been there ever since.
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One of the assumptions is that it becomes increasingly difficult to get things done in an election year, especially things where tough decisions have to be made.
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I would be surprised if there's not time set aside to tell that story.
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If these ideas are given a fair chance in New Orleans and the gulf area, ... their popularity and success will create a momentum for expanding them elsewhere.
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My guess is this is not a time when anyone is looking at a zero-sum game between one state or another.
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The extent to which he used the State of the Union to launch and define the 'ownership society' concept is important because if you take it to its natural extreme, the ownership society would essentially replace the 'Great Society. That's a major shift from where we've been.
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There is a sense this year that anything is possible, that they have the rapt attention of the leadership.
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It is once in a generation that an opportunity like this comes along, where the status quo is called into question and where the policy community and Congress can look at it, change it and improve it. Given how hard it is to change that status quo ... every policy organization, every think-tanker, every ex-Cabinet officer is going to have a vision, and even a plan, of what we should be doing.
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It certainly is the perfect storm of aggravating or provoking congressional egos and the president getting his back up and saying the least diplomatic thing he could have said.
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He needs to be cognizant of congressional egos and their involvement in decisions going forward. He's got to make up 12-15 points to be effective. He can get there.