Yet Speaker John A. Boehner, who only a week ago again ruled out raising taxes, is demanding as part of a short-term deal that he and Mr. Obama return to the bargaining table for a deficit-reduction blueprint covering many years and ultimately saving trillions of dollars.
And the rhetoric of fairness is not a substitute for a long-term deficit reduction plan, a real blueprint for overhauling the entitlement system, or a comprehensive tax reform – none of which this White House will be offering, apparently, in the 2012 campaign.
But he ought to have produced a convincing blueprint for deficit reduction after that.
If a review finds that Greece's blueprint for deficit reduction is too weak, officials will demand deeper spending cuts.
Senator Domenici, with Alice Rivlin, a former budget director for Congress and the Clinton administration, was chairman of a panel in 2010 of former lawmakers, administration officials, academics and executives, that produced a blueprint for debt reduction.
In addition, as future data releases (e.g., decadal population counts) occur, additional research into how these systems change over time are warranted and could provide an on-going blueprint for risk-reduction planning across the region.
The latter led to the adoption of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA), a decade-long blueprint for disaster risk reduction.
This information provided the blueprint for the major reductions in incidence of CVD that we have achieved in the United States over the past four decades (CDC 1999).
The great thing about adapting a short story rather than a novel is that it demands expansion rather than reduction — it's a springboard, not a blueprint.
President Obama has given the supercommittee a clear blueprint for $3.6 trillion in deficit reduction through a mix of spending cuts and tax increases on the rich.
