Sentences with phrase «federal bureaucrats in»

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The USD is a fiat currency directly backed by nothing, the supply of which can be arbitrarily altered and manipulated by a group of unelected bureaucrats in charge of the Federal Reserve.

In Bring Back the Bureaucrats, I crudely calculated that we need about one million more full - time federal workers by 2035 in order to serve the public, stop draining its purse, start improving performance, and create an actual system of national public administratioIn Bring Back the Bureaucrats, I crudely calculated that we need about one million more full - time federal workers by 2035 in order to serve the public, stop draining its purse, start improving performance, and create an actual system of national public administratioin order to serve the public, stop draining its purse, start improving performance, and create an actual system of national public administration.

His definition started with the negative: it is not broken - down public housing; not neighborhoods where children and 73 - year - olds are on their own; not decision - making in which planners, city officials or federal bureaucrats — everyone but the people call the tune.

On Astorino's Facebook page, he referenced the libertarian argument against the Common Core, writing: «I believe in local control of our local schools and not control by faceless state and federal bureaucrats.»

«This week, Andrew Cuomo said he backs his old agency, the federal bureaucrats at HUD, in their attack on Westchester County,» Astorino said in the video.

Of all the problems that could beset a federal bureaucrat, deciding how to shovel billions of unexpected dollars out the door in record time has got to be one of the least common and most enjoyable.

They aren't asking for yet another government takeover that imposes new job - killing federal regulations and puts bureaucrats in charge of the Internet.

The total 2010 budget for the department as a whole would grow to $ 26.3 billion from $ 24 billion in 2008; the projection for 2009 is $ 33.9 billion, plus a whopping $ 39 billion for energy programs under the stimulus package recently passed and $ 1.6 billion for the Office of Science, which federal bureaucrats plan to spend primarily on building scientific facilities.

Today a small business that wants to fight an agency decision can sue in federal court and go bankrupt hiring lawyers, or use an agency's own appeals process staffed by its own bureaucrats.

The federal government is preparing to bring the experiment to the national level, but before undertaking such an effort, the bureaucrats need to make sure there are no flaws with the system and send in one of their own, Danny Witwer (Colin Farrell), to investigate.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Federal bureaucrats would do well to focus on targeted competitive grant programs to encourage the adoption of their desired policies in places that really want to pursue them.

Second, they illustrate an almost endless faith in federal bureaucrats» ability to intervene effectively and positively in far - away places.

The question has a narrow answer when the respondent is a federal bureaucrat, charged with counting academic outcomes in the aggregate to assess student performance relative to some national metric.

Given that the federal role in education has rewarded a lot of cronies and entrenched a lot of anti-freedom bureaucrats but produced no student achievement gains, and can constitutionally exist only because the feds bribe states with their own money, it's about time someone with power and cojones took a stand.

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

As White points out: «School choice» means something different to everyone but usually encompasses the idea that a benevolent federal agency «allows» low - income parents to move from one education facility to another (charter schools), with public money (vouchers), «in order to provide their children with what the bureaucrats or philanthropists think will be a better education for them.»

It will lead you straight to the treasuries of state and federal governments, where academia constitutes an important player in the fascistic enterprise coordinated by politicians in office and their appointed bureaucrats at agencies such as the National Science Foundation.»

With the help of federal bureaucrats willing to violate the cardinal rule of bureaucracy — by surrendering regulatory power to the marketplace — emissions trading would become one of the most spectacular success stories in the history of the green movement.

She has worked closely with community sector leaders, Members of Parliament, senior bureaucrats in Federal Government agencies as well as peak bodies, research institutes and universities.

A U.S. Treasury Department «veteran» bureaucrat misled a federal court three years when he stated that «the government did not know Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were about to return to profitability,» according to a recent article in the New York Post based on legal documents in the Fairholme trial.