Trump hopes to do better by easing regulations and spending more — his proposed annual outlay would more than double Obama's.
While we must welcome the proposed increased in outlay in this sector, the thrust should be more on implementation of the schemes that are already in place such as the National Rural Health Mission.
At first glance, this iteration doesn't look much different from the rest of them — except, perhaps, that its proposed cuts in outlays on welfare and other domestic programs are even more draconian.
Robert Jackson, the chairman of the City Council Education Committee, yesterday proposed a $3.2 million budget outlay to support programs that encourage parent involvement in public schools.
Rather than trimming the Defense Department budget, he has proposed a radical spike in defense outlays that would take military spending to the highest level in 60 years.
Another Tea Party ally, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, has proposed eliminating millions of dollars in annual outlays for land conservation as well as cutting to $17 million the $50 million allocated in last year's budget for the restoration of the dwindling Everglades.
And in the United States, where demands are rising from the right to cut government outlays, none of the advocates have proposed reducing such sacrosanct middle-class benefits as the tax deduction for interest on home mortgages or the tax breaks for pensions and retirement savings.
On Tuesday, the BBC proposed a 25 percent reduction in its spending on the Web, as well as the closure of several digital radio stations and a reduction in outlays on U.S. television shows.
THE NEWS President Obama proposed a budget of $3.7 trillion for the 2012 fiscal year, cutting outlays on a wide array of programs but stepping up spending on education and research, infrastructure and clean energy.
The proposed index correlated with the share of government budget appropriations or outlays for research and development as % of GDP in 2004 (r = 0.229) whereas the corresponding correlation coefficient for the h-index was close to 0. Additionally, it was positively associated with the average number of citations/publication, the h-index and the number of highly cited papers.
