The Board of Supervisors should just keep its hands off the Police Department’s Deferred Retirement Option Program — so cutely abbreviated as DROP — and let it meet a well-deserved death by expiration on June 30. That would save deficit-ridden San Francisco $52 million, according to a recent controller’s report.
Not only does DROP cost millions of dollars, but it failed to accomplish what the public was promised it would fix.
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President Obama warned students that Congress will reduce the deficit at their expense unless they "get in the game" and rally for Obama's fiscal policies.
"They're going to want to reduce the deficit on your backs and if you are not heard that's exactly what's going to happen," Obama told hundreds of students gathered in a gymnasium at the Annandale campus of North Virginia Community College.
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Next week is deficit week for the White House.
President Obama is ramping up efforts to sell his deficit plan to the public, taking his message on the road for a series of town hall meetings — an early preview of one of the major themes in his re-election campaign.
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A speech in which President Obama repeatedly took swipes at a Republican budget plan had nothing to do with politics, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney asserted Thursday. “This is not a campaign speech; this is a policy speech," Carney said, even though Democratic operatives were using the speech to make campaign calls as early as Wednesday evening.
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Programs for children who have mental illnesses, developmental disabilities or abusive families are some of the hardest hit among more than $50 million in proposed budget cuts.
The deep cuts to children’s services were unveiled as part of initial plans to close an $82 million budget deficit for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
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President Obama on Wednesday proposed cutting the deficit by $4 trillion over the next 12 years, seeking to put his stamp on a raging debate while savaging a Republican budget plan that he called neither "serious" nor "courageous."
The president sought to demonstrate his commitment to tackling the deficit while preserving entitlement programs he said would be essentially wiped out under a GOP proposal.
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How does President Obama plan to reduce the deficit?
A simple enough question — but don't ask White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who rebuffed more than a dozen attempts to preview Obama's remarks at George Washington University Wednesday.
Carney dismissed as speculation reports that Obama would essentially adopt the recommendations of his own deficit commission.
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