At the same time, it provides a unique opportunity for the finance professional, particularly the
budgeteers among us, to shake off some of the technical and accounting dust from our boots and observe the sheen of policy making through the eyes of the policy maker.
In the final decision regarding a BDI recommendation to the budget director, the
budgeteer can integrate multiple rationalities (economic and noneconomic) to provide a viable recommendation supported with comprehensive analysis.
But if the
budgeteers decide to tap the remaining $6 billion-plus in the state's Rainy Day Fund, they'll need two-thirds of the House and Senate to go along.
Now the burden rests on the programmers,
budgeteers and executing parties.
Government
budgeteers have repeatedly, and excessively, cut the numbers of its ships, planes and manpower.
ACCOUNTING OFFICE, supra note 162, at 48-49 (noting how, after the first year of ZBB in the Carter Administration, "[f]ew significant budgetary actions were identified as resulting from ZBB, and some questioned the utility of the many hours spent by program managers,
budgeteers, and top managers on ZBB"); see also Allen Schick, The Road from ZBB, 38 PUB.
To
budgeteers, the financial gain is often not worth the political and strategic cost.
For example, if 99% of skin cancer treatment moves out of the hospital to the office setting, where it should be, the
budgeteers should be delighted to pay your office costs, which are a fraction of those for an operating room.
7-8) who proposed that at an aggregate level there is only a slight difference between obligations and expenses-the important ones occur in responsibility centers;
budgeteers are accustomed to the obligation system.
Self-contained energy sources on the battlefield, vehicles and ships with less dependence on long logistic lines, and lower costs per unit of use would be a godsend, not just to commanders and logisticians, but to
budgeteers as well.
So how can we, the providers, the people receiving services, the leaders and decision makers, the attorneys and the
budgeteers, come out of this experience being the wiser, the more mature, the more effective for it?
Budgeteers may note that people are expensive, but I say they are priceless.
Several questions arise regarding the pilots, maintainers, and even
budgeteers looking to boost their score by going to Kunsan Air Base.
Pursued by the
budgeteers, our gallant mask developers and program managers must ultimately triumph to save money and restore freedom to the gas mask community.
Worse, Congressional
budgeteers proposed in July to slash more than $1.